Claire Messud Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
Fay Godwin -
Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
Damon Albarn Blur
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho -
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole -
I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
Jack Wagner -
I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
Park Chan-wook -
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster -
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
Aasif Mandvi -
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
Randeep Hooda -
Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
Paul A. Volcker -
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
Eudora Welty -
If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
Dirk Benedict -
We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
Claire Messud