Meg Greenfield Quotes
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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Health is never going to go out of fashion.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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I'm very careful in the sunshine.
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But in that we started so many things in that moment, we brought to their ends many others that have been the subject matter of this account, and so here is where I draw a line across the leaf and call it the end.
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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
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When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.
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All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
