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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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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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.
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I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.
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'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.
