Mary McGarry Morris Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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My hunger is always there.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I got hooked on 'All Things Considered.'
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
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I've failed so many times in my life that my recovery time has improved. I'm better at redirecting my attention. I've trained in Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics over the past couple of years and that has allowed me to see how much we project our failures onto others. It has taught me to accept myself. There is real power in owning your truth.
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I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much.
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I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.
