Claire McCaskill Quotes

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Claire McCaskill

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When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship.

Joel Robuchon

PassionAgeHopeMyselfCooking

My outfits also need to be low-key. I'm a huge fan of boots, sandals, jeans and tank tops! Anything I can move in easily.

Jennifer Nettles

BootsI CanNeedJeansAnythingFan

Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Melvin Van Peebles

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In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.

Ann Leckie

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I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

Stephen Karam

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Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Tracy Kidder

TimeWorldYouPlaceWillOwn

I have devoted myself to the Rockets.

Travis Scott

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The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.

Tommy Bond

PlayWayPrettyThingsRoughAgain

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

Miriam Toews

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The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Josh Homme

MusicYourselfMeSelfishProblem

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Dee Dee Myers

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The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Christen Press

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