Margaret Anderson Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
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Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.
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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
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Whether it's Brad Pitt up there, if there's a good moment up there, and you get pulled into the emotion, you're not thinking, 'Oh, that's Brad Pitt. He's an actor, and he's famous.' That's kind of the nature of storytelling, right? You sit around the fire and tell a story, and you can get sucked into that story.
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One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
