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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It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.
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I never make predictions and I never will.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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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.
