Mary Gordon Quotes
I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
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Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
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Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
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Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
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I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
