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'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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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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Yes, I wear a number of hats. But my most important title is mom and wife.
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I love 'Latina'! You guys have always been so supportive of me and my career. Now I have my family, and it's just awesome.
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In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.
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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.