Meg Rosoff Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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Fat, fair, and forty.
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Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
