Mary Gaitskill Quotes
Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
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In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
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It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
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I don't like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.
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Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss.
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Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.
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Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
