Maureen Dowd Quotes

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

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• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  

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• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

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• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

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• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

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• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

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• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

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• If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

  

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• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

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• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

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• I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

  

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• I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

  

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• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  

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• She's an old soul. You will find her to be one of the more mature 23-year-olds on the planet.

  

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• We aim to be producing 75% of our work for Avon in Poland by Q1 2007.

  

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• Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.

  

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• The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

  

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• Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the culture is ready to recognize as mothering or fathering, but who most certainly is an excellent parent.

  

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• Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

  

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• When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

  

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• IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

  

  Robert Walpole
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• Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Should
  • Wells
  • Contempt