Claire Messud Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
V. S. Naipaul
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
Taylor Mali
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Gail Porter
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
Fabiola Gianotti
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
Patrick McGoohan
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Gary Chapman
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
A. E. van Vogt
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
Tatiana Maslany
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I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.
Mandy Bujold
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
Ralph Macchio
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Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
Adam Smith
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You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
Bill Callahan
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
Rachael Ray
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My husband had a stalker, briefly.
Claire Messud
