Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Meghan O'Rourke

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Tough

• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Friendship
  • Anger
  • Hatred

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Dark

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
  • Titles

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Thank You

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Fun
  • Management
  • Workplace

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Hand
  • Movies
  • See

• When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Crazy
  • Crying

• No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • American
  • Dream
  • Services

• I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Movie

• As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help,

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Education

• Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Experience
  • Grief