Mary Gordon Quotes
Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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It's kinda all about image.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
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Check-ins are cool, but kind of a pain.
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I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.
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Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
