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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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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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 think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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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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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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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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I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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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.
