Mary Gaitskill Quotes
It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
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Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
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If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
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The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.
