Meg Rosoff Quotes
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
