Claudia Christian Quotes
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
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I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.
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I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.
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Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
