Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
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The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
