Maureen Dowd Quotes
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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I'm confident, motivated.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
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In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.
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I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
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It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.
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Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
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Whatever I do, I just want it to be good.
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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.
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I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
