Claire Messud Quotes

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Claire Messud

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• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Real
  • Help
  • Lucky

• I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Universe

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Like

• 'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.

  

  Becky G
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Ready

• You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Prison

• I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Sports

• I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Water

• I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Age
  • Singing

• I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Years
  • Model
  • Invest

• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Travel

• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Book
  • Finish
  • Almost

• People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • People
  • World
  • History

• As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Different
  • Brain
  • Battle

• When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Real
  • Everyday

• I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Name
  • Too Late
  • Wished

• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Thought

• We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

  

  Claire Messud