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Claire Messud Quotes

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Me Furniture Down Things Terrible

I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.

Writing Loved Farm Living Way See

I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

Feel Security Affection I Feel

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Myself Bother Even Comparing Chaplin

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Miranda Lambert

Work Business Time Start Reach You

A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes.

Beauty Eyes Colors Feathers Gray

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Political Meet Europe Leaders Union

I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.

Moment Best Dress Happy Night Proud

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

Me Internet I Can Distance Respond

I need someone to woo me. Magazines are always saying I am beautiful and millions of men want to woo me, but none has come forward because they are all so scared.

Beautiful Men I Am Me Saying Want

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

Depression Creative Got Again

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Richard L. Evans

Children Remember You Material Things

The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.

Guillermo del Toro

Life Fear Great Questions Without

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