Claire Messud Quotes
For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
Quotes to Explore
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I have learned to be patient.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.
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It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
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At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking on what other people have already done, and then we will serve as a resource to other people.
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Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.
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I don't tend to do a whole Instagram theme. I like to capture the moment in front of me and make it look as good as possible!
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For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
