Mary Karr Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
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The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
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I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
