Megan Amram Quotes
I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
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I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!
