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.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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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.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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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.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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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.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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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.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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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.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If I moved to L.A., I wouldn't move to a ghetto neighborhood. I'd move to some posh, fancy place.
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I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.
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I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
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I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
