Meg Rosoff Quotes
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
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When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.
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Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
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I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
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There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
