Mary Karr Quotes
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.
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As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.
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There should be a whole book written about that one word: country. What does that mean, country? It's such a huge umbrella. I would hope that what makes it country is that it all starts with a song. The story being told in three and a half minutes that is not being told on another station.
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There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.
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It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.