Claire Messud Quotes
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
Lark Voorhies
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I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
Gavin Hood
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
Floyd Skloot
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
Yami Gautam
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I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
Jack Dee
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If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
Jane Harman
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I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
Fred Tomaselli
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The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
Marianne Williamson
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In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.
David Cassidy
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A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.
John Carmack
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud
