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.
Mary Gaitskill
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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
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler
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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
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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
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I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon
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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
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
Aimee Mullins
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'The Homesman' is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.
Marco Beltrami
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The whole thing is really quite pathetic. Here we have two self-obsessed schoolboys who spend all their time thinking about themselves and their future and not the future of the country.
Liam Fox
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In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.
Emily Calandrelli
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In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.
Charlie Shrem
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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
