Mary Gaitskill Quotes
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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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 wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
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Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
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I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.
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Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.
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Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
