Mary Karr Quotes
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Quotes to Explore
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I believe cultural survival is extremely important. I also believe it's important to realize the contributions that we make for each other.
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The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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My success is not who I am.
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
