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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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
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'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.
