Mary Karr Quotes
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
