Mary Gaitskill Quotes
You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
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You have yourself to blame.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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We overeat because there are signals and cues around us that tell us to eat. It’s simply not in our nature to pause after every bite and contemplate whether we’re full. As we eat, we unknowingly—mindlessly—look for signals or cues that we’ve had enough.
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I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.
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Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.
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The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
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You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
