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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Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
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From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
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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.'
