Mary Gaitskill Quotes
Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.Mary Gaitskill
Quotes to Explore
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis -
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
Zoe Kravitz -
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
Raf Simons -
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
Tamara Tunie
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo -
Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
Natalie du Toit -
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie -
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall -
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
Walt Mossberg
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
Oliver Sim The xx -
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
Becky Lynch -
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon -
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
Caitlin Rose -
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar
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It's nice when people approach you to help.
Aida Turturro -
LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
David Ricardo -
When he played last year, personnel-wise we weren't as good as we are now.
Joe Gibbs -
On the one hand information is moving quick or the way in which people consume information is changing so fast. Clearly this worked for [Donald Trump], and it gives him a direct connection to a lot of the people that voted for him.
Barack Obama -
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
Mary Gaitskill