Maureen Dowd Quotes
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.
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'Jeeves,' I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, 'what the dickens is all this?'
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It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
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We've got to get the public back into watching Test matches - speeding up the game with innovation is one way forward.
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
