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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It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
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More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
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Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?
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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.
