Claire Messud Quotes
I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.
Claire Messud
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
Camille Paglia
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I did all my fighting before the film started. I fought for the best director, the best lighting man. I was always conscious of how I looked.
Irene Dunne
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Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's sexual affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.
Warren Farrell
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twentyAnd oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
A. E. Housman
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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
Amanda Palmer
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Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Mika Brzezinski
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Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.
Carol Browner
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Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.
Chapman Cohen
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If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
Billy Collins
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I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.
Claire Messud
