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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Mary Gaitskill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1954

Topics

Love Lie Night Someone You Feelings

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Joe Henderson

Time Mistake Face Stand Trying Way

I think I've been quite lucky in that I haven't had to make too many changes to myself. Obviously, there have been adaptations and things that I've altered, but I haven't changed completely. I've stayed myself.

Jess Glynne

Myself Think Lucky Changes Things

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Maxim Gorky

Drink More Write Contemporary Than

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

Jeff Ross

Good Stars Jealousy Rock See Singer

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Mary Lambert

Change Heart People Ideas Think You

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

Michael Moore

Saying Everything Telephone Email

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Lucas Grabeel

Respect Appreciate Language Universe

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Jonah Hill

Time Fool Yourself Me Baby Think

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

Change Care Remember Important Most

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

Cornelia Parker

Mother People Thought Television She

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Clare Bowen

Age Think I Think About Trained

I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me.

Winona Ryder

Me Offended Director Fired Saw Cast