Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Future
  • Best
  • Vote

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Done
  • Confidence
  • Lose

• I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Man
  • Play
  • Television

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Live
  • Integrity
  • Rebel

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
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• The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Life
  • World
  • Reality

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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  • Read
  • Maybe

• I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Work
  • Country
  • Some

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• My literary success meant nothing to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Success
  • Me
  • Nothing

• Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Summer

• The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good
  • True
  • Beautiful

• All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Country
  • Home
  • Mean

• In the new series of 'Foyle's War,' London starts to get bombed, and the country falls under heavy attack. It affects people's sense of well-being, their sense of the future and their concerns for their family and friends.

  

  Anthony Howell
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • Father

• I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Music
  • Long
  • Bored

• I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
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