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
