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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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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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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'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'
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I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
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If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.
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Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.
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Cooking is exactly like making music.
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When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.
