Claire Messud Quotes
The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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People want you to fail.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I never go wild with nails.
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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.
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Poor Christine! She had long ago spent the days of her young motherhood in the marketplace, and now that they were all squandered, she had so few pleasant things left to remember. So she crouched low over the dull embers of a few half-memories in order to warm her old heart.
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.
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The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'
