Claire Messud Quotes

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

Claire Messud

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Man
  • Me

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
  • Quiet

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Important
  • Society
  • Joy

• I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Person

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Community

• With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Moments
  • Wall

• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • Blow

• Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • War
  • Mean
  • Haig

• Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Knowledge
  • Cutting

• Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

  

  Claire Messud
  • World
  • Writing