Claire Messud Quotes

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

Claire Messud

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WritingReadingYouKnowOutHead

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

Jim Capaldi

MeStrongAmericaFirstGuyJust

Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.

Melvyn Bragg

WorkBigGotSlimVolumeNovelists

I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.

Mike Birbiglia

I AmMeFeelAmericaTalkingWay

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Joyce Carol Oates

NatureLightNightDesertSomeone

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Douglas MacArthur

FriendMenWarKnowNowLiving

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

David Wilkerson

PainPromisesLookBackLovingTrue

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Chet Faker

LearningSuccessAppreciateLesson

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

Christopher Lee

OpinionBondThinkUpScreenEver

There've been a lot of TV programs on me in Russia.

Bryan Fogel

MeRussiaBeenTVLotPrograms

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Apollonius of Tyana

ManTrueNobleErrorPartHis

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

LifeGoodMotherGodTimeYoung

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

Audrey Meadows

WorkPeopleLaneRoomJustLike

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