Mary Gordon Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.
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His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.
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I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
