Meg Wolitzer Quotes
When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
Quotes to Explore
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
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I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
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Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.
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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
