Claire Messud Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to support them, they're getting shelled back into their own bunker.
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I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.
