Claire Messud Quotes
At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?
Quotes to Explore
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.
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At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
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I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
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I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
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At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?
