Mary Gaitskill Quotes

Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

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• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Funny
  • More

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
  • Always
  • Find
  • Nuts

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Control
  • Marketing
  • Measure

• I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Moment
  • Difficult

• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • You
  • Try
  • Something

• Lying is the rule, not the exception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lying
  • Rule
  • Exception

• I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

  

  Alexander Downer
  • Future
  • Party

• The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Men
  • Age

• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Mind

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • School
  • Family
  • Job

• O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee;The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Home
  • She
  • Alone

• Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Age