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.
Mary Gaitskill
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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.
Caio Fonseca
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.
J. B. Pritzker
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.
Gary McCord
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.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
Rachel Zoe
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
Rachel Tucker
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.
Tad Williams
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.
Edmund Morgan
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.
Maajid Nawaz
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Malala Yousafzai
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
Yuri Kochiyama
I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.
Adam Rayner
'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
John Eldredge
The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush - sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
Dan Hill
While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
Louise Slaughter
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.
Mary Gaitskill
