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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Meghan O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Mother Me Loss Die Nothing Knowing

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Character Great Writing You Want

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Stephen Hawking

World Perception Games Our About

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Life Moment Purpose Gift Nothing

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

Money Tradition You First Communion

I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.

Government I Am Think Spirit Taxes

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Women Passion Optimism Believe Worry

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

Lisa Scottoline

Work Home Time Walk Words Me

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Work Real Estate Go Never Finish

In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.

Live God Age Parents People Chill

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

Life Good Man Think End Weird

When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

People Sympathy Tears You Nobody

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Arnaud Desplechin

Work Love Truth Time Best Start

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