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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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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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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Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
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The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
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When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
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The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'
