Clea Duvall Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I love playing odd roles.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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I am a mother first, then a CEO and then a wife.
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And to his eyeThere was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.
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Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.
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Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
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I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
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Reinvent yourself. Repeat.
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I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
