Marcia Clark Quotes

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Marcia Clark

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : August 31, 1953

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.

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The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

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Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

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I have straight hair. If I don't blow it out, it's not good.

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I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

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You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.

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I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.

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I don't think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they're going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that kind of performance.

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Sarah Paulson is mind-blowing. I mean, she always is. She's always fantastic.

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I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'

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I like cable stuff; I really do - 'American Horror Story,' 'American Crime Story.'

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I love Viola Davis.

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Trayvon Martin broke my heart.

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That's who I was: a prosecutor. I really loved it.

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Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.

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Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.

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If you get robbed, no one's going to ask you, 'Well, what were you wearing?'

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The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution's case. It's up to the judge to make sure that they don't pull any fast ones.

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I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.

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When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.

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