Claire Messud Quotes
You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I'm evangelical.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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It seems, then, that the Greeks had not only derived from preceding nations, but had also, in some slight degree, deduced from their own observations, the theory of great periodical revolutions in the inorganic world.
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You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.
