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Monica Crowley Quotes

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 19, 1968

Topics

Yesterday Destructive Notion Obama

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

Time Small Texas Small Town Acting

When I'm at my lowest, when I'm crying uncontrollably, and I can reach out to one of my many people in my support network, it helps. I feel better.

Support People Better Feel Reach

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

You Director Little Come Accident

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Exercise Belief Judgment Every

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

Father Mother Childhood Parents Bond

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Douglas Coupland

Things Funniest Self-Delusion

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

Walk Step People Present You Meet

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

America You Nothing Film Behind Who

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education Adversity Prosperity Refuge

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

Place Same Used Sense Different

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

Collaboration Bad Done Books Even

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Me Writing Book Believe Blind True

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