Meg Wolitzer Quotes
When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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My hunger is always there.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience.
