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'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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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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.
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As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
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Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.
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I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.
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I didn't like horses when I was a kid.
