Mary Karr Quotes
Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.
Mary Karr
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
Bai Ling
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
Beatrice Wood
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
Vince Vaughn
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
Madhuri Dixit
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
Mandy Patinkin
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
K. Flay
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Victor Papanek
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
Gabrielle Giffords
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India
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It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
Ma Jun
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.
Clive James
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When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.
Kelly Price
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There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.
E. M. Delafield
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
Larry Bishop
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For instance, I have never believed that Jesus Christ would approve either abortions or the death penalty, but I obeyed such Supreme Court decisions to the best of my ability, at the same time attempting to minimize what I considered to be their adverse impact.
Jimmy Carter
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Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.
Mary Karr
