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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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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There was a young man with a salary, Who had to do drawings for Malory; When they asked him for more, He replied, 'Why? Sure You've enough as it is for a gallery.'
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.
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What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
