Mary Gaitskill Quotes
I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.
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On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.
