Mary Karr Quotes

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

Mary Karr

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Difficult

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Heart
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Just
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• 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.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Talking

• 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.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Day
  • Door

• You're gifted to do something.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • You
  • Something
  • Gifted

• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • You
  • Choices

• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Human
  • Consciousness

• Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fame

• Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

  

  Ram Charan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • America
  • Opportunity

• You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Training

• I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

  

  January Jones
  • Marine

• There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Mood
  • Weather
  • Fog

• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Together
  • Team
  • Confidence

• I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it was important for children, and especially girls, to have that time with their dad so that they could help develop their confidence and their critical thinking skills.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Confidence