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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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 -
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan
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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.
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 -
I want Bolivians to support their president.
Carlos Mesa
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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 -
Love food and I love to eat.
Salma Hayek
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I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!
Jennifer Damiano -
NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.
Anthony Watson -
I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
Wayne Knight -
Women will not be free until we can speak our minds and our hearts without having to worry that men will crucify us, women will crucify us, the press will crucify us, or our children will be ashamed... Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we feel we have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
Marianne Williamson -
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
Mary Karr