Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.
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Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
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And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.
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China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.
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I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.
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I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
