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'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.
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The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
