Claire Messud Quotes
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
Quotes to Explore
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
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I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
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The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
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Tough situations form experiences from which we grow and learn. So I think it’s really better to have gone through tough times than not to have any at all.
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I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.
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I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
