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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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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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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The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.
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In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.
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Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.
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Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.
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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.
