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've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.
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I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.
