Claire Messud Quotes

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

Claire Messud

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Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Jerry Greenfield

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I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

Andre Dubus III

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I prefer stage work, as an actor.

Robert Sean Leonard

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Louise Wilson told me she wanted to see more of the 1997 show. And so I needed to reissue that.

Matthew Williamson

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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.

Michael J. Willett

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Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

Anand Mahindra

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What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Robert D. Kaplan

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This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

Robert Delaunay

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I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.

Roger Ailes

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It's clever, but is it Art?

Rudyard Kipling

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Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one, which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny, and I thought the love story was very, very touching.

Michel Hazanavicius

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The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee... The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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