Mary Gaitskill Quotes

Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.

Mary Gaitskill

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LifeNatureAnimalSupportStart

When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.

John Knoll

SkillFirstKidIndustryFilmModel

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

Jeffrey Kluger

MemoriesCreativeIdeasNightCrime

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

John Schlesinger

TongueBadNeverSomethingBeen

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

Rupert Everett

ChangeEnergyThinkTriedEver

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

Michele Bachmann

PeopleThinkSaySincereRecognize

Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.

Chris Connelly

SadTalentHollywoodPersonalHead

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

William H. Seward

NatureMenLawWitRightProperty

We've always been hardcore rebels.

Rickey Medlocke

AlwaysBeenHardcoreRebels

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.

Richard Flanagan

CompassionPeopleThinkYouNation

I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I think the British with Brexit, then the Americans with the election of Donald Trump, did that: They made possible the impossible.

Marine Le Pen

BlueRoseImpossibleThinkElection

I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.

Lynsey Addario

LoveNew YorkCityNewOutUp

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Julian Baggini

CookingProcessEndChoiceDuty

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