Mary Karr Quotes
The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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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 thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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Everyone feels pressure, it's how you deal with it that's important. It's very unusual for Aussie teams to have a losing streak like this, so you want to snap out of it.
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If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
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Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.
