Claire Messud Quotes
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
Wanda Sykes -
I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
Dana Plato -
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Umberto Eco -
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
Faran Tahir -
Freedom is living without chains.
Indra Devi -
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
Daniel Bryan -
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
Vikas Swarup -
I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
R. L. Stine -
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Abel Ferrara -
I always do something that I've never done before.
Lars von Trier -
The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
Jack Cade
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
T. C. Boyle -
Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
Madeline Kahn -
As we embark on something as ambitious as the Common Core, educators must be able to teach to the standards with the necessary support and collaboration and without the sense that there will be dire consequences if students, schools and their tests don't make the grade.
Randi Weingarten -
As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.
Tammy Duckworth -
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria
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I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'
Charles Bock -
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
Alessandro Michele -
A generous person, who never becomes hateful to the misbehavior of enemies, cannot create sorrow in his mind.
Asaram -
I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.
Claire Messud