Meghan Daum Quotes
Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.
