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Mary McCarthy Quotes

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1912 - October 25, 1989

Topics

Live Hero Day Words Story You

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Learning I Am Learn Illusion Try

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.

Creative City Me London Fresh Faces

The process of making a wedding cake is complex on its own, from designing, mis-en-place, baking, frosting, structuring, decorating, to delivering.

Cake Process Wedding Baking Own

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Age Time Getting Older You Dignity

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

Life Money Insurance Lost Over Save

I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me to write a joke where I don't end up on the ground for some reason. Hey, at least that way, I know no comics will steal my jokes. Too many bruises.

Me End Feel Know Want Way

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

Myself Meditation Games Quick Before

I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.

Art People Know More See I See

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me. If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Paula Malcomson

Character Time Me World Enough You

I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor's birthday ball or mayor's dinner.

Birthday Red Dinner Political Create

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

Long You Drink Straight Vodka Sucks

Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in spite of her own struggles with alcohol. She was an immigrant who had never finished school. But she was also a Renaissance woman who read voraciously. She spoke several languages.

Richard Carmona

Mother Myself Woman School Me Care

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