Maggie Gallagher Quotes
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I like my world to be calm.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
