Mallory Ortberg Quotes
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.
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I like to think I put some of myself in every character.
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From where they stood, they could see the castle.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.