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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I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.
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I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.
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You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
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In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.
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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.
