Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
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How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
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My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
