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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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
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I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.
