Margaret Atwood Quotes

Confess: it’s my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary.

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• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Better

• Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Intelligent
  • Facts
  • Debate

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Choice
  • Consequences

• The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Truth
  • Dark
  • Presidential

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Happy
  • Independent
  • Fat

• I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • School
  • Home

• My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to have on the economy's productive capacity, on productivity growth, and to the maximum extent possible, choose policies that would improve that long-run growth and productivity outlook.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Growth

• What unites them is an almost reckless desire to test themselves in the most extreme circumstances. In many respects the life they have chosen is a complete rejection of the hyped, consumerist American dream as it is dished out in reality TV shows and pop-song lyrics. They've chosen asceticism over consumption. Instead of celebrating their individualism, theyíve subjugated theirs to the collective will of an institution. Their highest aspiration is self-sacrifice over self-preservation.

  

  Evan Wright
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Circumstances

• My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

  

  John Bardeen
  • Effort

• I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

  

  James Purefoy
  • People
  • Business

• Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Party

• Confess: it’s my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • People
  • Why
  • Scary