"A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?"

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Source : "Emilia Clarke: out of the dragon's den". Interview With Emma John, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2013.

Emilia Clarke

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“I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for lifeâ€™s essential absurdity.”
“My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.”
“For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.”
“A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.”

Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”
“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.”
“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”
“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”

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