Mary Shelley Quotes

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Mary Shelley

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• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

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• America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

  

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• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

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• I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.

  

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• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  

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• A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

  

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• The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

  

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• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  

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• Elegance is inferior to virtue.

  

  Mary Shelley