Mary Karr Quotes
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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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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 get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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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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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).
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I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.
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It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.
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One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.
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All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.
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A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
