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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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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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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These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.
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By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.
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I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.
