Margaret Stohl Quotes
I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
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You need the willingness to fail all the time.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
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I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
