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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Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
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What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
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Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
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Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.
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'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.
