Meghan Daum Quotes
I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects.
Quotes to Explore
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects.
