Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

Mary Gaitskill

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• My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Lost
  • Journey
  • Memory

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Boy
  • Flow

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Myself
  • Leave
  • League

• We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• One who is persistent will excel.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Will
  • Persistent
  • Excel

• I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Done
  • Think
  • Player

• My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Day

• If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Color
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up

• I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Experience
  • College
  • Autumn

• To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Great
  • Music
  • Eyes

• That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Life

• Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • American
  • Liar
  • Violent

• I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

  

  Mary Gaitskill