Mary Gaitskill Quotes
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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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.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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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.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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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.
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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.'
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We're all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others' life choices.
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I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.
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Self-reform is the only kind that works.
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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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And the more he treated her as though she were really very nice, the more Lotty expanded and became really very nice, and the more he, affected in his turn, became really very nice himself; so that they went round and round, not in a vicious but in a highly virtuous circle.
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I didn't like horses when I was a kid.
