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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We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.
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The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.
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I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
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My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.
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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
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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.
