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I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Could Creatures Gone Life Out Thinking Through Truly Turns Venomous Were Women

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I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Afraid Always Comfortable Could Family Hate Hotel Imagined Just Live More Pressures Responsibilities Stranger

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In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

~Claire Foy

Topics: Able Becomes Before Being Circumstances Cope Could Cry Develops Emotions Episodes Even Family First Freer Front Goes Hard Her Imagine Lot Must Never Order Own Queen Series She Shout Shut Shut Up Sphinx Two Up Which Your

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We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: American American People Being Better Better Job Compromise Could Deny Figure Filibuster Job Making Minority Much Need Out Own People Right Them Way Who Willing

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I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Could Discovery Distressing Exhilarating Fiction High High School Immediate Known Like Moment Notes Particular Particular Way Read Say School Senior Senior Year Things Underground Unsettling Until Up Urgent Way Year

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When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Again Always Book Could Else Fear Finish Happy Just Lot Makes Me Never Nothing Something Something Else Takes Think Time Write You

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In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Contained Could Create Entirety Experience Making Making Up Reading Shared Stories Up Which World

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In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Acquire Books Could Day Feel Like Packs Rather Smoking Someone Tendency Terrible Two Vice Wish I Wish I Feel

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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Attack Bad Biography Choose Choosing Could Equally Models Novels Offensive People Poems Vulgar Who You

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It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Admiration Affection Could Felt Odd Situation Someone Whom Write

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