Mary Kay Andrews Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in.
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I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.
