Maureen Corrigan quote: "Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life."

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my neares...
MAUREEN CORRIGAN

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
MAUREEN CORRIGAN

My mailman and the UPS guy - I always have to tip them lavishly at holiday times, because they're ca...
MAUREEN CORRIGAN

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
MAUREEN CORRIGAN

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be m...
MAUREEN CORRIGAN

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women'...
KELLY CORRIGAN

Once I'm a success, all this depressing shit will just be a little footnote in the massive blog of h...
MARK CORRIGAN

There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about t...
KEVIN CORRIGAN

well into an investment cycle that should lead to long-term consistent growth from a stable of high ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is wha...
KELLY CORRIGAN

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.
KEVIN CORRIGAN

I've got a very poor opinion as it turns out now, because we've been stitched up in the transaction ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

There's a risk I suppose that Pacific National is broken up and that's a route that seems inevitable...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Unfortunately, Toll did not apply the same standards
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Toll have effectively negotiated with themselves a transaction which is not in line with the board a...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.
CHRIS CORRIGAN

I'm talking about business ethics here,
CHRIS CORRIGAN

To the best of my knowledge there have been no new attacks.
ANDY CORRIGAN

There is no new news about the hostages. We continue to work closely with the Nigerian authorities a...
ANDY CORRIGAN

We are clearly pleased that they were released. We are focusing with authorities and the employers t...
ANDY CORRIGAN

I'm pleased that we have been able to achieve this result for Patrick shareholders who may now choos...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

The Board strongly believes that, based on this offer, Patrick shareholders are better off without T...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

It would be more valuable to Patrick and Toll shareholders if (chief executive) Paul Little focused ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

The bid is ill-conceived, poorly structured and offers Patrick shareholders a diluted interest in th...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

That's not an easy thing to do. And he hasn't done anything to diminish his standing.
JACK CORRIGAN

The Toll bid was ill-conceived from the outset. It has been a failure of both strategy and execution...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.
CHRIS CORRIGAN

There's a risk I suppose that Pacific National is broken up, and that's a route that seems inevitabl...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Now he's being given the opportunity to buy back effective control (of Virgin) at 1.40 aud (a share)...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Toll can pay more, Richard Branson can pay more and the Virgin Blue in specie distribution can be mo...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

We don't need to dilute, or as some people say pollute, by merging our business with a road freight-...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Our long-term capital investment program in ports will move to a new phase next month with the openi...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

You've really got to grind it out all day to do anything against D.J.. It's hard to get your hands f...
KEVIN CORRIGAN

They're a very good team. They haven't gotten a lot of wins thus far, but they haven't not been in a...
KEVIN CORRIGAN

I don't think we need to do anything differently. We need to do things consistently. That's been our...
KEVIN CORRIGAN

Steve did a terrific job last week, and we really hope that he can do it for us again this week.
KEVIN CORRIGAN

You fly from thermal to thermal looking for lift.
KELLY CORRIGAN

Turbulence is the only way to get altitude – to get lift. Without turbulence the sky is just a big...
KELLY CORRIGAN

Far from being a serious bid to build an Asian-Pacific colossus, the bid is a crude maneuver to stop...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

If (Toll chief Paul) Little isn't prepared to face us in the boardroom, we have no option but to mee...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

All Patrick employees who went to Pacific National when the joint venture was formed in 2002 were re...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

There is a blurring of the lines between a printer and sign maker. It was a vinyl sign applied to ex...
KEVIN CORRIGAN

Toll has negotiated for itself a 20-year contract which gives it exclusive rights to all of the frei...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

I imagine we'll start off with: Great opportunity to come into a dysfunctional organisation, work fo...
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Turbulence is the only way to get altitude, to get lift. Without turbulence, the sky is just a big b...
KELLY CORRIGAN

I really got into officiating to try and get things organized. I went to the state (officials) organ...
PEGGY CORRIGAN

If you look at Toll as a business, it's a primarily a road-based, freight forwarding business,
CHRIS CORRIGAN

Our miners followed these procedures to the letter, and that's what saved them. They sealed themselv...
FRITZ CORRIGAN

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's...
KELLY CORRIGAN

Originally Toll wanted to buy that through Pacific National,
CHRIS CORRIGAN

It's fabulous. It's unexpected and beautiful.
GRACE CORRIGAN

It was very upbeat and positive. It shows her having a good time.
GRACE CORRIGAN

We were nervous, and in fact, we were sitting there waiting, and my husband said, 'If I could, I wou...
GRACE CORRIGAN

Don't we all learn as we go? Everybody learns from their mistakes.
GRACE CORRIGAN

She left a fabulous legacy. It's making people feel good about themselves, making kids feel they're ...
GRACE CORRIGAN

They have a lot of air, they can house 25 people, a full crew, for 36 hours, and they can release ox...
FRITZ CORRIGAN

Looking to the remainder of our fiscal year, we anticipate stronger fourth quarter sales, but expect...
FRITZ CORRIGAN

The company performed well in the second quarter despite soaring energy prices, leading to high raw ...
FRITZ CORRIGAN

Safety is a core part of our culture at Mosaic. Our actions today have demonstrated this.
FRITZ CORRIGAN

There was a huge sigh of relief, but they were still underground. We weren't out of the woods yet, a...
FRITZ CORRIGAN

I can't tell you how proud I am of my people.
FRITZ CORRIGAN

Tom was the one who figured that out. Tom is the one who led us here.
GENE CORRIGAN

There's some urgency. Then again, there's always some urgency when you're talking about Notre Dame f...
GENE CORRIGAN

There's no more pressure in any other coaching job in the country. Not everyone is cut out to coach ...
GENE CORRIGAN

There's some urgency. Then again, there's always some urgency when you're talking about Notre Dame f...
GENE CORRIGAN

There's no more pressure in any other coaching job in the country, ... Not everyone is cut out to co...
GENE CORRIGAN

But sometimes you find that one guy who has just the right intangibles for the job he's in. I think ...
GENE CORRIGAN

There are just dozens and dozens of quality football coaches out there,
GENE CORRIGAN

Charlie is going to have them playing at a very, very high level again.
GENE CORRIGAN

This is a challenge for other companies to get involved, as we have gotten involved. This is an impo...
ERNIE CORRIGAN

A decision that is going to materially effect the Cape and the islands should be made in Massachuset...
ERNIE CORRIGAN

Cape Wind from the beginning has tried to avoid direct state oversight. It brings the state very cle...
ERNIE CORRIGAN

We can use all the assistance we can get to assure the amendment is passed.
ERNIE CORRIGAN

He is absolutely credible as a candidate. The hardcore policy wonks and opinion-makers are extremely...
JACK CORRIGAN

He has great political skills and he's an exceptional speaker. And when he finds the right audience,...
JACK CORRIGAN

I think it will be substantially different in Nebraska, because they can't jump from one to the othe...
MATT CORRIGAN

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
KELLY CORRIGAN

On Capitol Hill Congress runs by an internal clock: Legislative days are not counted the way calenda...
RICHARD CORRIGAN

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN

self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness!
If the pu...
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN

Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and Ame...
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN

Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes...
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN

Public stigma
Stereotype Negative belief about a group (e.g., dangerousness, incompetence, cha...
MATTHEW W. CORRIGAN

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys a...
MAUREEN DOWD

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'...
MAUREEN O'HARA

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact tha...
MAUREEN DOWD

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
MAUREEN REAGAN

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, b...
MAUREEN DOWD

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception doe...
MAUREEN PHILLIPS

Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. Y...
MAUREEN CONNOLLY

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two f...
MAUREEN MURPHY

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men...
MAUREEN O'HARA

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
MAUREEN O'HARA

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, e...
MAUREEN FORRESTER

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD

In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get a...
MAUREEN FORRESTER

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to spr...
MAUREEN DOWD

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
MAUREEN O'HARA

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.
MAUREEN BRADY

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho ca...
MAUREEN DOWD

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, bu...
MAUREEN DOWD

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, ...
MAUREEN DOWD

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of...
MAUREEN DOWD

Mystery, like faith, defies human logic.
MAUREEN MOSS

Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
MAUREEN O'HARA

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK

One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin ...
MAUREEN MEDVED

I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy."
...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you st...
MAUREEN DOWD

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Redd...
MAUREEN DOWD

The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry ...
MAUREEN DOWD

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
MAUREEN DUFFY

[Last week, George W. Bush told] New York Times ... I'm smart enough to know what I don't know.
MAUREEN DOWD

United States of Shame
MAUREEN DOWD

As the water recedes,
MAUREEN DOWD

OK, I'll predict that the rapture's coming and you and I, Chris [Matthews], are going up, and all th...
MAUREEN DOWD

They have been painting the barn red and white, chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests f...
MAUREEN DOWD

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
MAUREEN DOWD

Aside from his scintilla of candor, Mr. Bush is still not leveling with us. As he said at his press ...
MAUREEN DOWD

If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.
MAUREEN DOWD

She more than earned her sobriquet, 'Miss Run Amok'.
MAUREEN DOWD

I'm just not temperamentally suited to it,
MAUREEN DOWD

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world....
MAUREEN DOWD

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
MAUREEN O'HARA

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nob...
MAUREEN FORRESTER

CFOs need to proactively mitigate technology risks.
MAUREEN O'CONNELL

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
MAUREEN O'HARA

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
MAUREEN O'HARA

Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But w...
MAUREEN DOWD

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?
MAUREEN O'HARA

I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You...
MAUREEN DOWD

If you've been drinking, you're still drunk, and energy drinks won't take away from that.
MAUREEN MILLER

We're exempted, but we're voluntarily doing it.
MAUREEN KAHN

When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine....
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
MAUREEN O'HARA

The US is aggressively targeting bilateral trade agreements around the world with countries that rep...
MAUREEN FITZHENRY

We have no concern with the BASF wheat, because it's not GM.
MAUREEN FITZHENRY

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
MAUREEN MURPHY

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very differe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahl...
MAUREEN FORRESTER

Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said America...
MAUREEN CALLAHAN

You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.
MAUREEN LIPMAN

We've all been there. You feel embarrassed, but let it go.
MAUREEN COONEY

Things get spilled. It happens.
MAUREEN COONEY

If someone is truly intimidated, they're not going to recommend it to their friends. One good turn d...
MAUREEN COONEY

Do some math, and make sure everyone gets something.
MAUREEN COONEY

Do your best to eat a little. Try to be an adult.
MAUREEN COONEY

You work from the outside in.
MAUREEN COONEY

But don't go to the bottom of the menu either.
MAUREEN COONEY

Let's face it. You're not going to order lobster.
MAUREEN COONEY

We condemn this harassment of independent activists seeking to participate peacefully and constructi...
MAUREEN BYRNES

What is unique about the My Medicare Matters(TM) campaign is that it is a grassroots, on-the-ground ...
MAUREEN KELLY

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mer...
MAUREEN O'HARA

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they...
MAUREEN FORRESTER

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame a...
MAUREEN FORRESTER

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.
MAUREEN O'HARA

In my mind, I said the best things to Elton. I wrote countless excellent notes that I never sent. I ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

You're...a demon hunter?'
'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Cartridges were misplaced or lost. Entire precincts are suspect because cartridges failed.
MAUREEN MURPHY

McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men�...
MAUREEN DOWD

Since 1998 Sen. Harkin has secured a total of $116 million for the initiative, the first of its kind...
MAUREEN KNIGHTLY

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
MAUREEN O'HARA

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of do...
MAUREEN DOWD

His House colleagues still call him "Jackie One Note"-joking that if you ask him how to solve the pr...
MAUREEN DOWD

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. -Maureen Duffy.
MAUREEN DUFFY

The markets are clearly disappointed.
MAUREEN ALLYN

This [report] gives the Fed total latitude to do whatever they think is fitting.
MAUREEN ALLYN

The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a real ...
MAUREEN ALLYN

The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of re...
MAUREEN ALLYN

This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my es...
MAUREEN ALLYN

We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means ther...
MAUREEN ALLYN

Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It...
MAUREEN ALLYN

That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the ec...
MAUREEN ALLYN

With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six t...
MAUREEN ALLYN

It certainly looks like [new claims] have peaked. You're looking at several weeks where they've come...
MAUREEN ALLYN

Our position is that we're not opposed to biotechnology, although we had specific concerns with Roun...
MAUREEN FITZHENRY

Unfortunately, he can't do that anymore,
MAUREEN REAGAN

No one wants you dropping dead at the table. If you're a picky eater, that's totally different.
MAUREEN COONEY

I'm not going to let my opponent take something away from me. I want it more than anyone else, and a...
MAUREEN SHEA

I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Good stuff!" [Knud] said. "All organic, of course! All fresh! We take care of the earth here! You li...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Rise and shine, porcupines!
MAUREEN JOHNSON

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Before she could answer, the waiter sprang at his chance to brush some crumbs from David's chair. He...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORT...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy.
MAUREEN MURPHY

It's not a dramatic fallout, and I don't see any evidence of panic. It's much more of a gradual adju...
MAUREEN ALLYN

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I s...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

These initiatives Sen. Harkin fought to include in the farm bill as chairman, however, remain under ...
MAUREEN KNIGHTLY

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

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Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

Maureen Corrigan

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