Mary Karr Quotes

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1955

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Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

John Lydon

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Kobe is amazing. He's extremely competitive.

Metta World Peace

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I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Stephen Sondheim

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Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

Steven Pinker

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But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

Trevor Dunn

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I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

Roger Penrose

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I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

Romy Madley Croft

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Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Ruth Rendell

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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

Roisin Murphy

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Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

Miguel Zenon

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I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

Bryant Gumbel

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I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.

Ari Graynor

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