Margaret Heffernan Quotes

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Margaret Heffernan

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One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Jennifer McMahon

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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats

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When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

Rob Corddry

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I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

Rose McGowan

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I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

Monica Bellucci

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What I'll say is that Cuban-Americans don't have to deal with the same immigration issues as other nationalities because of the 'wet feet, dry feet' policy. For Cubans, one year after you touch United States territory, you can become a legal resident.

Jorge Ramos

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Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.

Dolores O'Riordan

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I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer

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Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cliff Burton

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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

Bruce Jackson

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