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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

Meghan O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Mother Day Deep Thought Fake Never

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Joe Biden

Determination Courage People American

If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

Andrew Haigh

Looking Think Long I Can First Tone

Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?

Robert Picardo

Walk People Say Why Dying Room

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Steven Pinker

Learning Culture Socialization Innate

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

Travis Barker

Food Diet Need Protein Just Changed

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.

Ruth Reichl

Time Myself Giving Next Bite Slowly

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

Mary Berry

Success Good Think Baking You Will

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

Donna Mills

Loved Because Musicals Dancer Also

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

Chubby Checker

Woodstock British Twist Beatles

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Work Accomplishment Blur Play Line

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Wynton Marsalis

Time Balance You Feeling Swing Way

You cannot overstate, I don't think, the impact of a show like 'Glee' on a generation.

Wilson Cruz

Think Impact Generation You Show