Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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I'm not going to sell Donald Trump short. I think the American people saw something in him.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
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Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
