Mary Schmich Quotes
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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The two things I hear wherever I go, literally walking down the street, through airports, or in restaurants - it is either 'You raised me,' or 'Fellow Canadian.' Not even a paraphrase - those are the exact remarks.
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The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
