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

• 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

• 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

• There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Up
  • Attention

• A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • America

• Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

  

  Anja Niedringhaus
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane. (ibid, p. 28)

  

  Dave Sim
  • God
  • True

• In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Trust

• I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Effort

• I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill

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

  

  Claire Messud