Meg Wolitzer Quotes
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Let us come together before we're annihilated.
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Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
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Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
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I go train, and like with Conan, I'm in leather, and with Drogo, I'm in leather or armor or something else. I'm not in my adidas sweat suit or my matching tracksuit pants to go work out. I got too busy of a day. I've got my boots.
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There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.
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When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.
