Claire Messud Quotes
This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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When I came into WWE, what I said to myself was, I wanted to change the term from 'divas' to 'women.'
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.
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We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.
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This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.
