Meg Wolitzer Quotes
'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
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I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.
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If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.
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'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.
