Mary Gaitskill Quotes
I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
