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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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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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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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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You're always going to believe in yourself, and I have to thank God for that, but it's pretty hard to believe that you can make it to the big leagues and that you can possibly get 200 hits three years in a row. I feel very proud.
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If you feel strongly about something and you want to voice your opinion, I feel it's your right, so, that's how I look at it because that's how life is.
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Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.
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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.
