Claire Messud Quotes

If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.

Claire Messud

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A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.

Jodie Comer

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I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.

John Gurdon

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I can't imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.

John Cornyn

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I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

Michael De Luca

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I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

Amy Ryan

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If a girl is not covered from head to toe, it does not mean she is inviting you to ogle at her. If we are interpreting it that way, it is not the girl, but our upbringing that is to be blamed. It is the thought process that needs to be changed.

Sonakshi Sinha

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A child can escape the shadows.

Steve Largent

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Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.

Rush Limbaugh

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I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.

Michael T. Weiss

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All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

Brendan Fraser

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In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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