"I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got."

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Meghan Daum

#Meaningful Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.”

Source : "Lee Daniels Makes It Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.
“When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.”
“Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.”
“Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.”
“Working women went through a time when they believed that.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”
“One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.”

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