Marissa Jaret Winokur Quotes
My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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When you’re dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.
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My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'
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My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.
