Claire Messud Quotes
If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
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If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
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Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.
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If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.
