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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Meghan O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Mother Home Death World Year Anchor

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

Jim Evans

Positive Great Me Encouragement Year

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

Jeremy Scott

Ideas Too Much Kind Run Head Take

I think it is only natural that people have anxiety about the economy because the economy is real. It is their job, their ability to service their mortgage and look after their family. And in the final analysis, nothing is more important than your capacity as a breadwinner or an earner to provide for those that rely on you.

John Key

Family Service Job People Think You

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

John Key

Family Politics View You Go Always

'Xyle XY' follows this boy who is like a newborn to the world - everything he sees and experiences is for the first time. He travels into the city and ends up getting put up by this foster family.

Matt Dallas

Family Time City World Boy First

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Sofia Coppola

Great Someone Moments You Back Go

As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.

Tom Reiss

History Writing Someone Back I Can

Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and then I do weights a few times a week. It's just how I can balance eating pancakes in the morning, a big burger for lunch, and then a fat steak and cheesecake at night.

Matt Barr

Morning Passion Food Balance Lunch

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Michael Korda

Future Past Amazing Ignore Predict

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

Michael Madigan

Budget Problem You Way Out Cut

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.

Janet Yellen

Great Depression Progress End Loss

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

Christine Quinn

Work Fight Tough You New Know