Claire Messud Quotes
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
Tamron Hall
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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 heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.
Jerry Leiber
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Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.
Bill Conti
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
Marc Andreesen
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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
Gautama Buddha
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My husband had a stalker, briefly.
Claire Messud
