Actually Quote by Maureen Dowd Download Open image “It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.” — Maureen Dowd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actually Adrenaline Fear Make Me
One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting. — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks with the… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first American DeBeers… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her old flames… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image