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Claire Danes Quotes

I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Crazy Think You Play Know Important

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.

Effort Complex Products Becoming

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.

People You Down Born Country Kind

I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

Funny Myself Trying Pilot Hollywood

Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I was a standout athlete, so when that happens, you don't have too many people telling you 'You can't do this,' and 'You can't do that.' I've always been a bit of a people person and a hard worker.

People Growing Up Obstacles You Hard

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

Sometimes Boring Watching Dancing Up

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

Me World Feel You Acting Stop

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Doing Producer Left Stuff Songs Had

In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Window Present Reality Camera Film

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Dominique Dawes

Age School Team High School Year

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

Mother Used Split Says

The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.

Chellie Pingree

Change Stand Up Energy Political

Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.

Winnie Byanyima

Challenge Space Society Decisions

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