Meghan Daum Quotes
To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
Quotes to Explore
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.
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I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.
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I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.
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I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.
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To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
