Claire Messud Quotes

Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.

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• It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Effort
  • Changes

• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Universe

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Fan
  • Disaster
  • Agriculture

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Guess
  • Tomboy
  • Resourceful

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Here
  • Egypt
  • Colonialism

• One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Money
  • Things
  • Look

• When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • You
  • Peace

• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Leadership
  • Doing
  • Class

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Artist
  • Enough
  • Often

• One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Cry

• I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • God
  • Remember

• If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Great
  • Strong

• French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Women
  • High