Claire Messud Quotes
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
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The sign had been put up out of suspicion and a guilty conscience: 'Military zone. Filming or photography prohibited'.
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¿Quién escribe tu nombre con letras de humo entre las estrellas del sur?Ah déjame recordarte cómo eras entonces, cuando aún no existías.
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Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.
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This is the last time I'm asking you this,Put my name at the top of your lips.This is the last time I'm asking you whyYou break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.
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I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.
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Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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For me, I do everything all the way. When I love my wife, I love her all the way. This isn't a sales pitch; this isn't a tagline. You'll see us in our 80s, and we'll be sitting together on a rocking chair. That's how it is. That's how it ends for us.
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There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.
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Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
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As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.
