Mary Karr Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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You're gifted to do something.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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Worry is negative goal setting.
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I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.
