Claire Messud Quotes
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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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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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
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Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!
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And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
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What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."
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I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.
