Mary McCarthy Quotes
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.
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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.
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Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
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I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
