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I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Adult Again Been Experience Free Just Just Be Kid Needed Really Responsibilities Since

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I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Been Experience Good Interested Never Particularly

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I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Abroad Being Belong Born Common Experience Fact Films Foreigner In Fact Interested Know Link Maybe My Own Never Own People Think Very Well Where Who I Think

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Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Baby Being Care Experience Female First Gave Having Heath Joyful Legislator Me Mind Missouri Mother Myself Needed New Office Overwhelming Peace Peace Of Mind Some Sometimes Son State While

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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Accurately Art Better Experience Human Human Experience Illuminate More Particular Work

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I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Also Clarity Convey Experience How Like Lot Need Reader Way Will World Would Write

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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Aspect Capturing Experience Fake Feel Hard Harder Human Human Experience Know Life Really Some Than Things Think Though Truthfully Trying Writing You I Feel

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For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Aim Always Complexity Convey Exhilarating Experience Invaluable Life Rather Some Than Those Thoughts Tiresome Unexpected Us Who Whom Whose Writers

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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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For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Experience Formative Land Me Particular Reading Waste Younger

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