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.

Mary Gaitskill

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Way
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Good
  • Social Media

• 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?

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Way
  • Person
  • Irish

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• 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.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • School
  • Religion
  • Ethics

• 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.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Think
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Game
  • Moments
  • Winning

• Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Hal Price
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Broken
  • Sorrow
  • Hearts

• 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.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • High

• You have yourself to blame.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Yourself
  • Blame

• Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

  

  Carl Andreas Koefoed
  • Music
  • Choice
  • Characters

• I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

  

  Will Gompertz
  • Ideas
  • Beauty
  • Structure

• It's very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China because our view is, users come to a platform; they really don't care whether it is professional or whether it's a user-generated, or it's premium, you see. They want to come to a big database to be able to find the content they want.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Want
  • Care
  • Professional

• There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Mary Gaitskill