Megan M. Duffy Quotes
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
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By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
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I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
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I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.
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I thought 'Cabin in the Woods' was really incredible.
