Claire Messud Quotes

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

Claire Messud

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There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

Mayim Bialik

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The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

John Ortberg

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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

Robert Shea

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The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album.

Andy Grammer

GoodPeopleDrivingHoneyGoRadio

I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both.

Michael Connelly

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For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

Lloyd Bridges

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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

Lorde

LoveShoppingYouThreeEverything

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Don Cornelius

LightBetterComediansOnlyThanTV

Veterans Day is a time to reflect and renew our commitment to ensure our military heroes have the tools to reintegrate successfully back to civilian life.

Bobby Kotick

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It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Timothy Noah

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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Tim Berners-Lee

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For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

Nydia Velazquez

LegalNeedHousingSideAgainst

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