Claire Messud Quotes
In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.
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In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
