Mary Gaitskill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
-
I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
-
No one today knows what is indecent.
-
My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
-
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
-
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
-
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
-
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
-
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
-
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
-
I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.
-
The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.
-
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
-
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
-
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
-
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
-
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
-
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
-
The collapse of the housing bubble sent the world spiraling into recession. The collapse of the energy and commodity bubble threatens to be just as damaging.
-
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.
-
I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.
-
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
-
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.
-
I didn't like horses when I was a kid.
