Claire Messud Quotes

When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Anger
  • Greed
  • Follow

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Dog
  • Human

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Know
  • Me
  • Weekend

• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Mean
  • Restaurant
  • Belong

• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Government
  • Politics
  • More

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

  

  Jessie J
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Gay

• Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Question

• We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

  

  George Pierce Baker
  • Drama

• The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Book
  • Science
  • Heaven

• When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Live
  • Words
  • Friend