Claire Messud Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.
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Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
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All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life.
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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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I've been on the road since I was 15, in one way or another - on a bus, in a 15-passenger van, pulling a U-haul - so I would be lying if I said sometimes the miles and the road didn't get long. But it's always rewarding, that hour and a half every night you get to stand up there and see it all pay off and feel the love from that crowd.
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I was someone who believed that every day should be different from the last.
