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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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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These stories get made up, and I don’t know from where. I have no idea. I didn’t make that one up - sometimes I make my own stories up - but I didn’t make that one up.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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You are an adult, and you can dress up whenever you want to. You don't need permission anymore! If you wake up next Tuesday, and you feel like being Batman, go for it! And then you go to work, and your boss will look up and go 'who are you,' and you can say...'I am Batman. That's who I am, who are you?'
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The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.
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“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
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I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
