Mary McCarthy Quotes
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.Mary McCarthy
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Damien Hirst -
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia -
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams Battles -
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall -
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten -
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
G. W. Bailey -
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers -
I have been acting since I was thirteen.
Caleb Landry Jones -
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Barbara Castle -
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Yuri Milner
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell -
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Edmund White -
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
Larry Kramer -
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
Gail Carson Levine -
Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
Pat Buchanan -
I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Tavi Gevinson
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Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.
Bill Kristol -
I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.
Chloe Sevigny -
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Lee Konitz -
I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think, are arguably as important as the lead vocals.
David Nail -
We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
Madchen Amick -
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
Mary McCarthy