Claire Messud Quotes
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud
Quotes to Explore
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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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Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
Chris Evert
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Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.
Wendy Wasserstein
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One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
John Frankenheimer
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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
David Harvey
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
Madame de Stael
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud
