Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes
We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
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Mophonics is kind of a creative home for me.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
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No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him.
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We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
