Mary Kay Andrews Quotes
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.
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I call this one the Ninja Center-fold! ~ Naruto
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Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
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Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.
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In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.
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I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.
