Claire Messud Quotes

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• Im not your biggest girly girl.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Girl
  • Girly
  • Biggest

• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Money
  • Why
  • Decision

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Advice

• I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Years
  • Old
  • Still

• Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Facts

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  

  Ovid
  • Pain
  • Grief
  • Calmness

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Cold

• It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

  

  R.D. Blackmore
  • People
  • Waiting

• When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Famous

• The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • True
  • Right
  • Calmed

• In all honesty it was easier to believe it in cool Long Island for its very outrageousness where nobody believed anything very seriously than in hot Carolina where everybody was a Christian and found unbelief unbelievable.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Cool

• In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Wish
  • Smoking