Meghan Daum Quotes
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I can clap with one hand.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
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I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
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I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
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I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.
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I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.
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I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
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I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.
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Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.
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When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.
