Claire Messud Quotes
If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
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I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
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Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.
