Claire Messud Quotes
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I am a just man.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
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Worst advice? I either don't remember it or I've been very lucky in terms of getting good advice.
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I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.
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I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!
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There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.
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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
