Mary Gaitskill Quotes
Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
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Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
