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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Mignon McLaughlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983

Topics

Generosity Reputation Cheap Buy Like

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

Live Truck Night Society You Know

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Perspective Think Tennis Always Wins

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.

Character Style Me Writing Story

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Art Perception Meaning Magic New Up

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

Knowledge Service Experience I Am Me

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Michele Bachmann

Children Husband Five Been Raising

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'

Good Dating School People Weird Bad

Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber, and he'd rumble around with all this wood in our small place. We'd finish putting it away, and then we'd play that piano. I'll be eternally grateful to him.

Home Grateful Night Small Doing

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

Chrystia Freeland

Slow Impact Changes Hard Dramatic

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

Together People Writing Puzzle Feel

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

Woman War Glass Hand First Sit

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

Age Eyes Giving Trying Little Lines

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