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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Nature, they say, doth dote,And cannot make a manSave on some worn-out plan,Repeating us by rote.
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He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.
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I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.
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I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.
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Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
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When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.
