Maureen Dowd Quotes
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
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Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
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I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.
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Mary is embarrassed, because the people are bowing down to statues of her.
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The happiest day - the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.
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Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.
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Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
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The words were low, more shape than breath.
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Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
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We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.
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I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
