Mary Gaitskill Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby -
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea -
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
Zoe McLellan -
People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti -
TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
Yvonne Strahovski -
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle -
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
Ursula Burns -
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
H. P. Lovecraft -
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
Majora Carter
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The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
Nate Berkus -
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
Jack Kingston -
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
Cleveland Amory -
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
Kathryn Stockett -
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
J. C. Chandor -
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
C. J. Mahaney -
We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect.
Han Nolan -
Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
Mary Gaitskill