Mary Karr Quotes
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
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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.
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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.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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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.
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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.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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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.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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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.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright.
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I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
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If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
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The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
