Mary Karr Quotes
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.Mary Karr
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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 -
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
Vanilla Ice -
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Dan Webster -
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone -
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
Xavier Niel -
Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
Ilan Stavans
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
Patrick deWitt -
America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
Taylor Momsen -
I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
Iman
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
Carlos Mesa -
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
Queen Latifah -
The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
Dan Byrd -
Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
Ralph Macchio -
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
Adam D'Angelo -
I am such a political person.
Madeleine Albright
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Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Angie Stone -
I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Ellen Ochoa -
I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.
Demi Moore -
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
Mary Karr