Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
Quotes to Explore
-
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
-
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
-
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
-
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
-
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
-
We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
-
A lot happens in 20 years.
-
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
-
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
-
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
-
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
-
Everybody has a story... and a scream.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
-
The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
-
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
-
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
-
I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
-
Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
-
My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
-
There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.
-
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
