Claire Messud Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why.
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Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.
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Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.
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The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?
