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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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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We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.
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Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.
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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
