Claire Messud Quotes
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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Women just love to shop.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
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I want to present a very strong and bold image, but with femininity. I love being sweet and salty all together.
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I'm a big believer in the complex realities of young people's lives.
