Mary Karr Quotes

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

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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?

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Real
  • Want
  • You

• 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.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watch

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Me
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Music
  • Age
  • Think

• I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Wish
  • Ballet
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Career
  • Always
  • Chance

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• 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.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Me
  • Fan
  • Mail

• Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Truth
  • Word

• 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.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Life
  • Talking
  • Personal

• I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Scary

• I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood. (Scar Tissue, 2004).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Friend
  • Childhood

• The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • War
  • Fighting

• There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Death
  • Famous

• I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Book
  • Universe

• ...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Answers
  • Trumpets
  • Cripples

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

  

  Mary Karr