Claire Messud Quotes
It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
Claire Messud
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan
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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.
Fernando Botero
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
Dana Perino
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning
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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.
Jack Germond
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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.
Edgar Wright
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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.
Ralph Adams Cram
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
Yasmine Al Masri
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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.
Larry Craig
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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.
Farnaz Fassihi
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
Jack Ma
