Claire Messud Quotes
It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
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Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.
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Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement
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It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
