Mary Gordon Quotes
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.
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All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.
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Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.
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I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.
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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
