Claire Messud Quotes

I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

I'm not a party animal.

I'm not going to lie, I am a bit of a party animal.

I party only with my close friends in Chennai and L.A.

I've always been painted as this party animal.

I don't party much, but I am open to parties.

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

For me growing up, I've found that I don't really go out and party and I don't hang out - when I come home and I'm home, I'm a pretty chilled person.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

Whenever I'm hired to do appearances I always get to take one or two friends with me. I'm away so much I'd get lonely if I didn't. My BBF would get to go jet-setting with me to amazing parties too, like the ones on P Diddy's yacht. Apart from me, he throws the best parties – they're so A-list.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.