Miranda Cosgrove (Miranda Taylor Cosgrove) Quotes
My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
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White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
