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?Claire Messud
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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.
Ian Anderson -
I've always been happy with my body.
Venus Williams -
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.
Mandy Patinkin -
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.
Finn Jones -
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.
Earl Weaver -
At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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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.
Warren Stephens -
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.
Hannah Gadsby -
I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
Natalie Cole -
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Malcolm X -
I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
Rainn Wilson -
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True
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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.
F. W. de Klerk -
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.
Cyril Connolly -
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
V. S. Naipaul -
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
Charles Koch -
The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.
Lindsay Duncan -
What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.
Dave Ramsey
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I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.
David Caruso -
If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.
Brandon Webb -
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?
Claire Messud