Claire Messud Quotes
What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.
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Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?
