Top 53 Merrill Markoe Quotes

#1. Though it seems like time itself moves more slowly when you're in the presence of people who actually see and hear you. There's a certain weight to a moment that never comes when you feel invisible.

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#2. As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

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#3. They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

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#4. Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

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#5. Whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.

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#6. I'm clear with all my bitches ... I hump her till she bites me. Then it's adios bitches, time for BALL.

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#7. I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.

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#8. That's just stupid," said Chuck. "Have a look around at the rest of the animal kingdom lately? I'll have sex with anyone who doesn't try to kill me."
"And even then, as long as their butt smells good, I'm in," said Johnny Depp.

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#9. Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

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#10. When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

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#11. I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.

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#12. I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

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#13. The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

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#14. The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.

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#15. Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

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#16. Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

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#17. It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

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#18. No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

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#19. The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

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#20. My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and self-absorbed. In all likelihood, if they were children instead of dogs, I would have foisted more Charlie Sheens or Kardashians onto our crumbling culture.

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#21. Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.

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#22. You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

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#23. Well, there's two kinds of peeing ... There's regular peeing, because you have to pee. And then there's auxiliary competitive peeing. For acquiring empire. I'm all about the real estate.

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#24. When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.

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#25. Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.

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#26. A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

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#27. Our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.

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#28. Once you get into it, it's all you can think about. Look, I know you don't trust my judgment because I eat cat shit. Someday I'll explain that to you. But right now do what I say. Just pick up the ball and throw it.

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#29. Why do you always come in to kiss me while I'm on the toilet?" I asked.
"Makes us feel close to you," Chuck said, surprised I would ask. "Peeing is one of the special things we share.

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#30. I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

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#31. I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

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#32. Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

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#33. It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

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#34. Come on! You must have at least suspected there was someone else," he said. "Couldn't you smell her on his pants?

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#35. Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

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#36. By the time the last of these relationships ended I was such a quaking mass of colliding, exploding neurotransmitter malfunctions that the only coherent sentence I could form in my native tongue went: Never again.

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#37. I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.

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#38. I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.

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#39. I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.

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#40. My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

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#41. Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign.

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#42. A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

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#43. I care about being creative and productive.

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#44. At least watching dirty movies can be kind of fascinating if they aren't too horribly strange. And even the horribly strange ones are still more interesting than televised sports.

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#45. Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

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#46. I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.

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#47. Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

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#48. To find the right person, you must first BE the right person.

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#49. And Mom? You're a good girl."
"Thank you. That's very sweet of you, Chuck"
Though what I was really thinking was: This is too fucking weird.

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#50. My mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

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#51. Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

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#52. I've made my life's work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it's harder now than ever before because there's so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.

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#53. Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

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