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 have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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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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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.
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I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.
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My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
