Mallory Ortberg Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
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When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
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Partnerships like those remind us that the relationship between nations is not just defined by governments, but is defined by people - especially the young people who will determine the future long after those of us who are currently in positions of power leave the stage.
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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
