Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
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You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.
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I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
