Claire Messud Quotes

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Claire Messud

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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Angry
  • Blessings

• Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Angry

• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Attention
  • Government

• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Angry

• I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Person
  • Angry
  • Principled

• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

  

  Ian Hart
  • See
  • Secret
  • Missing

• You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • You
  • Angry
  • Horse

• I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Angry

• I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Great
  • Voice
  • Angry

• Twelve thousand in the convention Believed through the voice of John. They worship, they deserve a portion, In heaven they will not be angry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Heaven
  • Angry

• Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Justice

• It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. The difference is that you can compel your car to go to a garage, but you cannot compel Hitler to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Energy
  • Car
  • Angry

• When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Believe
  • Broken
  • Angry

• Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Done
  • Why
  • Pride

• Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

  

  Anne Heche
  • People
  • Life
  • Angry

• We have grown a lot as a couple. 'Nach Baliye' has made us understand each other in a way that now there is nothing missing in our relationship. We know each other fully.

  

  Amruta Khanvilkar
  • Relationship
  • Couple
  • Missing

• If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.

  

  John Prine
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Angry
  • Missing