Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
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People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
