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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'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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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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I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
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Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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Ἐλαφρὸν ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδαἔχει παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τοὺς κακῶςπράσσοντας.
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Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
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Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
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I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
