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Mary Schmich Quotes

American - Journalist | -

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Day Job Down Know Done Workplace

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Love Mother Death People Feel You

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Life People You Movies Will Map

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Love Movies Admire See Function Who

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Loved You Movies Out Who Figure

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

Style Day Dress Every Day Out Up

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

Tears You Move On Gone Move Happens

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

Trust Support You Know Run Never

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

World Learn You Lesson Say Want

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Food Pain Medicine Separation Some

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

Games Hunger Everybody Hunger Games

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Fear Day Believe You Every Day Said

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