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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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
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When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
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We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I go up and introduce myself, and I start making a new friend I wouldn't have done otherwise."
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I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.
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The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'
