Meg Cabot Quotes
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
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I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
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I should be the Hunger Strikee.
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Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
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I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.
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We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic.
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I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
