Claire Messud Quotes
In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
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In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.
