Meg Rosoff Quotes
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
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I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.
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A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.
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It's really weird watching the government watch me.
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
