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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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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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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Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.
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Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.
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He's very valuable to us. We can't afford to lose somebody like that.
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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.
