Meghan Daum Quotes
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I don't envy young actors.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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Things I say are sometimes silly.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.
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I looked at him like he had three eyes. Ultimately though, if you look at the program now, he was right on target. If TCU had stayed, I don't think TCU would ever have had the success we had.
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When I look at these young models, I just think we worked in an era that was a lot more real.
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I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
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I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.
