Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
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If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
