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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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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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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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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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 here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital
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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'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
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What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
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I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
