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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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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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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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?
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'Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.''I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,' Emily hissed. 'Ever hear of it?''They’re out of fashion in New York,' Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
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I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.
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The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?
