Claire Messud Quotes
Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.
Claire Messud
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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Janet Evanovich
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My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
Lynn Coady
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Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!
Enric Sala
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.
Claire Messud