Claire Messud Quotes
I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
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Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.
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I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.
