Mary Karr Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.
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'The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.'
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Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.
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In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
