Mary Karr Quotes
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.Mary Karr
Quotes to Explore
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson -
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
Taya Kyle -
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne Dyer -
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar -
I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
T.I.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
Aaron Neville -
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
Natascha McElhone -
I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann -
Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
Venus Williams -
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
Vince Cable
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry Commoner -
I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
Frances McDormand -
I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
Nancy Reagan -
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
Sam Waterston -
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
Damien Chazelle
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I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
Emily Blunt -
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
Adam Draper -
Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender -
Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.
Kevin McCarthy -
One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.
Deirdre O'Kane -
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
Mary Karr