Claire Messud Quotes

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Claire Messud

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• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Important
  • Today
  • Government

• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • True
  • Guy

• Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Party
  • Short
  • Often

• Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wealth
  • Lead
  • Inequalities

• I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

  

  Imelda May
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Walking

• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Team
  • Organization

• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Before
  • Sixteen
  • Partying

• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Successful

• Mainly I love working on good writing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Working

• I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Think
  • Relax
  • Aging

• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Idea

• Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.

  

  Amartya Sen
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Enemy

• Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast. Down through all eternity The crying of humanity. 'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love...

  

  Donovan
  • Past
  • Singing
  • Humanity

• The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Financial

• Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are. Or so we say. But are these separate?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

  

  Colin Firth
  • World
  • Help
  • Airplane

• Because who is more oppressed. Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for nothing.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Pay
  • Claim
  • Disability

• There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Future
  • Past
  • Know

• To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

  

  Claire Messud