Phyllis McGinley Quotes
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
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I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
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