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

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• 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

• If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • You
  • Someone
  • Sweetness

• 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

• The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Live
  • Song
  • Singing

• ...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Heart
  • Cancer
  • Nostalgia

• We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

  

  Bobby Rahal
  • People
  • Time

• I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

  

  David Slade
  • Mistake

• My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

  

  Jean Fritz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Words

• 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