Claire Messud Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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In economics the tendency of theory to lag behind observation seems to be endemic, and, as theorists, few of us consider this to be a 'terrible state.' But as noted by Lakatos (1978, p. 6), 'where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.'
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I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
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I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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A person's a person, no matter how small.
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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
