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Claire Messud Quotes

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Happy Be Happy Writing You Say Than

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Good Ideas You Bad See Good Ideas

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

Church Admire Up Catholic Schools

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Today Time Challenges World Think

I want to understand the anger in the world.

Anger World Want Understand

I was singing R&B before I was rapping, and I never really enjoyed it. But when I started rapping, I was like, 'This is sick - I'm actually alright at rapping!'

Singing Sick Never Started Alright

My legs are long but my body is too short.

Short Long Body Legs Too

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

Black Play Radio Pop Songs

The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands.

Money Dance Hands Will Him Big

Life is warfare.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Nature Scenery Feel Escape More

Ultimately, in regular television, you've got seven or eight executives and maybe 50 people in the room with dials who are deciding whether a show goes - and it's not a great way, because we're making mass entertainment.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Great People You Television Way Got

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

Life People Priorities Stronger Here

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