Mary Oliver Quotes
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.
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My mother was a very wise and strong person.
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Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show.
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
