Mary Karr Quotes
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr
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.
M. Emmet Walsh
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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.
Garret Dillahunt
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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.
Ralph Ellison
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Kuang
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
Larry Page
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A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Pope Francis
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Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
Frank Deford
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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.
Oswald Chambers
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Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.
Jim Nabors
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. Forbes
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr