Megan Charpentier Quotes
When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
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Pall on her temper, like a twice-told tale.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
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I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.
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When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.
