Meghan Daum Quotes
This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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I will act now. For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
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I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.
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The best kind of entertainment is the kind that also makes you question something or think outside the box or live another life. Those are the stories that I'm drawn to.
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This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
