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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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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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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What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.
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Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
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I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.
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We knew people in Cleveland who had been making movies for 20 years that nobody sees. Every couple of years, they make a little small movie on their own, and it goes to some minor festivals, and that's it. Four years later, they do it again. That's a fulfilling life for some filmmakers, and they're happy to work that way.
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
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I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
