Claire Messud Quotes
For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
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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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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
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I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.
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Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.
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People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.
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For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
