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.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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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.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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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.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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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.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.
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Entertainment and art are not isolated.
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I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
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More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
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Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
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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.
