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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Meghan O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Life Mother Sky World You Become

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Jim Ramstad

Information Security Privacy First

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

Joan Van Ark

Church Go Much Very Presbyterian

You can't go into Youngstown, Ohio, and tell everybody they're going to be retrained and go work for Google or Apple.

Michael Avenatti

Work You Apple Go Google Tell

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

Shirley Temple

Crush Role Role Models Major Were

In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that, too.

Travis Kalanick

Make It Happen Disrespect Trying Way

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

Robin Wright

You Down Want Same Out Coming

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

Michael Rapaport

Together People Me Seeing Done More

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Monica Ali

Conflict Create Drama Try Always

I thought, 'Nobody wants this book, and I'm an idiot for having worked on it so hard.' But to succeed in writing, you must be willing to look stupid for a long time. 'Pachinko' took so long because I got it wrong so many times.

Min Jin Lee

Time Writing Stupid Succeed Book

As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.

Cherry Jones

Good Enough You Look Play Actor

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington

Man Will Drink Two Things He

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

William Golding

Book Forget Writer Knows He Should