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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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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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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From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.
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It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
