Claire Messud Quotes
You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.
Claire Messud
Quotes to Explore
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
Carlos Ghosn
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
R. Kelly
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.
Cammie McGovern
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I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'
Brandon Uranowitz
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I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
James Cromwell
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Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
Peter Tosh
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A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.
Dai Vernon
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You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.
Claire Messud
