Mary Karr Quotes
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.
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There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
