"And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Meghan Daum

#Blow Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes

“I have the same friends and the same bad habits.”
“My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.”
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!”
“All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.”
“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.33, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.”
“Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.”

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