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Claire Messud Quotes

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Easy Why Never Project Always Been

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

Life Fear People Me Think Process

Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.

John David Washington

Work Hard Work Strength Confidence

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Self Brainy Become Image Our Held

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I'm a developer of the technology.

Technology I Am Physician Matter

Winning the first championship is a goal for any boxer, and it means a lot to reach it.

Winning Reach Goal First Means Any

When you plan something, it never works.

Juan Pablo Montoya

Plan You Never Something Works

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Power Man Mind Nothing More Than

What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Dayananda Saraswati

Loss Winner You Lose Lesson Sense

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Alone Happy Writing Table Sitting

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.

Silence Government I Am Civil Rights

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Anthony Trollope

Life Wife Woman Man Not Perfect She

If loving your job qualifies you as a workaholic, then yes, I am one for sure!

Job I Am You Loving Yes Sure

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