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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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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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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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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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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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
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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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John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.
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The Big Valbowski is kinda like a pool just jump right in and get wet!!
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.
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I don't have an iPod.
