Mary Kay Andrews Quotes
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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No man is an island. No man stands alone.
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Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.
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I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.
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I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
