Claire Messud Quotes
We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.
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One of the U.S. Soccer Federation's points is that it's an honour and a privilege to to play for this country, and it is. But we also represent the entire country, and the idea of liberty and justice isn't afforded to everyone.
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If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.
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We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.
