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Claire Messud Quotes

Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.

Claire Messud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Learning Dance Me Insecurity You

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Jim Garrison

Faith Ignorance Never Complete Read

If I'm feeling healthy - like, I've eaten well and have drank a lot of water and have clothes that feel good - I feel good.

Jess Glynne

Good Water Feel Good Feel Clothes

Keep hope alive!

Jesse Jackson

Hope Alive Keep

When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

Jen Sincero

Stress Progress Effort Feel Push Up

I got trained in kick-boxing and mixed martial arts. I enjoyed the whole process so much, and I'd love to do more action films.

Amy Jackson

Love Action Process More Arts Whole

I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.

America Ferrera

Sister Kitchen Talking Remember You

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

Sidney Poitier

Me Pictures Sometimes Take Like

In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me.

Robert Crumb

Women Day Me Fall Street One Day

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father Brother Parents Me Kitchen

We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.

Dean Kamen

Live Ideas World You Want More

No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.

Bruno Dumont

Work People Philosophy Need Claim

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

Auberon Waugh

I Am People Looking Back Looking Am