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Claire Danes Quotes

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1979

Topics

Worth You Passionate Worth It Little

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Politics Purpose Game Think You

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

I Am Guilty Too Much Eat Pleasure

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Angela Duckworth

Free Motivation Choose Choice Three

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

Love Business Time Small Enough

I was in Hyderabad shooting for a Telugu film with Mahesh Babu when Aamir called, saying he wanted me to play the widow Jwala in 'Mangal Pandey.'

Me Saying Play Shooting Film Widow

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Friend Power Experience Tough Result

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Funny Others Need Two Complain

The Court's objection to cameras may be much more a product of history and process than an unwillingness to be placed in the public spotlight.

History Process Product More May

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Intelligence Civilization Product

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Antonio Damasio

Simple Mind Self Attention Minds

I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.

Alone Coffee Practice Being Alone

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

Humility Name Laziness Real Fine

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