Claire Messud Quotes

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Child

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Hair
  • Hands
  • Down

• My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Different
  • Women
  • Thought

• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Giving

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Welfare
  • Liberal
  • Signing

• A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Good
  • Story
  • Meal

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Government
  • Never

• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Building
  • Differences
  • Out

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Change

• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Writing
  • Purpose
  • Mother And Father

• Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'

  

  Katherine Waterston
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• Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

  

  Claire Messud
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