Claire Messud Quotes
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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I probably took more than anybody could survive. … I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear, GO!. … I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. … Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Qui frumentum necessariaque non praeparat, uincitur sine ferro.
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I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
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My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.
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Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
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I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.
