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Claire Messud Quotes

For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

People Me Will Out Streets Get

We've been seeing a lot of brides buying two dresses for their wedding, especially in America, and a lot of brides are talking about changing shoes halfway through. It is a very long day to be wearing one pair of shoes, however comfortable they are. It is about marrying that combination of style and comfort together.

Style Shoes Day Together Talking

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

World Church Up Playing Gospel Grew

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

Relationship Know Own Must Just

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

Good Job Me Think You I Can

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

Me Learn Grandmother Always Film

I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.

Experience Remember Clever My Own

Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.

Women Men Think Friends Feelings

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Think End Television Dead I Think

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

Enjoy Long You Go Way Dead

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

Great Way Make Other Around Scripts

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

Sylvester McCoy

Freedom Great People Think You Go

I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.

Father School You Know Steel Three

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