Mary Karr Quotes
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
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I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
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I'm nothing without God.
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You alone are enough.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
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Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
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The emphasis on religion as a basis of defining majorities and minorities in a secular state is quite misplaced and contradiction in terms. You all understand, I am sure, that religion does not aim at dividing. On the other hand, all true religions have a basic unity.
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Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
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Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.
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The hand washes the hand: give something and you may get something.
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I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
