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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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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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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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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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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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
