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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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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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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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.
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My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
