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.
Patricia MacLachlan
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Life in California is beautiful.
Oscar Nunez
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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.
Kate Winslet
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
Natalie Coughlin
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
Yahya Jammeh
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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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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.
Iman
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
Dane Cook
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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.
Cara Delevingne
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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.
Patrick Carman
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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.
Lara Spencer
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector
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I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'
Andrew Lau
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This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.
Sarah Dessen
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As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.
Luther Strange
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I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.
Mark Kurlansky
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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
Claire Messud
