Margaret Heffernan Quotes
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
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When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
