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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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
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Mine has been a pretty strange path.
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I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.
