Meg Rosoff Quotes
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
Quotes to Explore
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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Compliment three people every day.
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I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
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Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
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Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
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Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.
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As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
