Megan McCafferty Quotes

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

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• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wise

• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Cards
  • Cash
  • Boots

• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Need

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Son

• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Therapy

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• I never met a stripe I didn't like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Like
  • Never
  • Stripe

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Hate
  • Mean

• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Conflict

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Long
  • Political

• I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Character
  • Search

• I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

  

  Megan McCafferty
  • Long
  • Writing