Claire Messud Quotes
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I am a Buddhist.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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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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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything.
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Thank you … San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you … for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
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With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
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Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'
