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Claire Messud Quotes

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Life Living Pointless Rushing Your

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

Success Me Night Short Push Late

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Music Great Time Dance Dance Music

I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.

Nature Mirror Face Always Your

I have no idea who first coined the word 'Abenomics.' It was not my original term for the set of anti-deflation, growth-promotion policies I am now pursuing.

I Am Now First Original Idea Set

I think there's a misconception, often times, I think society portrays truckers as people who can't get a better job or maybe uneducated, and I think that's a really unfair assessment.

Michelle Monaghan

Job People Society Think Better Get

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

Joseph Kosinski

Blessing Challenge People Feel You

It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.

Good Girl Cool Think Sexy Walking

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

Women Society Movement Laws Been

The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.

Me Orange Sight Puke Makes Burnt

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Understanding Consequences Country

Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.

Art Long Matters More Pretending He

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

Stress Mind Night Book Thinking

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