Maureen Dowd Quotes

I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear... I don't have the life that goes with the clothes.

Maureen Dowd

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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

John Mulaney

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I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

Matty Mullins

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As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Tom Brokaw

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It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

Rob Reiner

LiveMeStoryFindKnowKind

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

Roger Moore

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I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

Rosamund Pike

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A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Mike Huckabee

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Evvverrrrybody wants to know what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.

Michaela Watkins

KnowWorkingLikeWantsJennifer

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Moby

MusicPeoplePossiblePointGetFar

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

Jazz Jennings

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I'd had a rough childhood.

Joni Mitchell

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