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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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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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
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I'm not just in this race so you will remember my name at some future date. I'm not here now for some next time. I am not bidding now for your consideration for some vague convention in 1984- perhaps when I've mellowed a bit. My time is now and now is no time for mellow men!
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When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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There's a beauty in being unrealistic.
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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
