Meg Ryan Quotes
Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.
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Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
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I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.
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The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.
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Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
