Alison McGhee Quotes
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
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I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
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It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
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I want to thank myself. Forty-five years ago, I graduated from the University of Ottawa and had a few career opportunities available, but I chose television and I've never, ever regretted that decision.
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I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.
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Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
