Meg Wolitzer Quotes
We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.
Quotes to Explore
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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I drink loads of water, so I'm always nipping off for a piss when we're doing a gig.
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We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.
