Mary Timony Quotes
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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There always have been funny women.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
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Faith is important to me.
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When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
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I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..
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I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
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He who is contented is rich.
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
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The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision.
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I don't have an iPod.
