Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I will run against anybody.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.
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It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.
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You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.
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I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
