Margaret D. Nadauld Quotes
I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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I received most of my business education around the dinner table. Whether I listened to my father or brothers, or we had business people as dinner guests, I learned from everyone.
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My record speaks for itself.
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If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
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I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
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I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
