Mary Gordon Quotes

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

Mary Gordon

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Act
  • Legitimate
  • Lobbyists

• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• 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.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• 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.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Vote
  • Lazy

• 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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Working
  • Students
  • Succeed

• 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.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Society
  • Young
  • Will

• I'd rather be home alone, painting.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Painting

• We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie - that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Job

• I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Success