Maggie Lawson Quotes
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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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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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the European backgrounds of my relatives.
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I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
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I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
