Meghan Daum Quotes
It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.Meghan Daum
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill -
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
Kate Forsyth -
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Ted Turner -
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Karen DeCrow -
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
Gabriella Wilde
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
Barry Bostwick -
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis -
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
Becki Newton -
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel -
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
Aaron Koblin
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly -
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
Beck Bennett -
I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
Halima Aden -
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson -
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
F. Sionil Jose
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
W. S. Gilbert -
When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
Rachel Holmes -
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
Jacki Weaver -
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela -
It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
Meghan Daum