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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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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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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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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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
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The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
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As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
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There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
