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Meredith Monk Quotes

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 20, 1942

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Good Challenges Think Artists Like

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Government People World Saying Rest

Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were college grad students. It was fun and liberating and made for a true sort of writer's show. It was a fun year for me, because I got to get out of debt with my first TV job, and I learned a ton.

Job Fun People College Me Writing

I will be there for my kids.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

I Am Sometimes Like Even Female Am

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

School Smart Me Saying Thought Way

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

Training Process Lonely You Group

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

Austan Goolsbee

Together Giving Down Grind Will

In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

Believe Gambling Vegas She Cage Pay

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Art Experience Sushi Everything

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

Life Work Live You Play Emotional

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

Beautiful People Beautiful Things See

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

Long Go Kind Way Interview Seem

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