Mark Steyn Quotes
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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No one person is an island.
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.
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I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
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Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
