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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

Mary Gaitskill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Listening Mystery You Sex

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

Andy Weir

Love Father Science Great Me Moon

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

Rodney Stark

Work People American Hard Out Bring

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Jay Pharoah

Character You Say Whatever Standards

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Jean Cocteau

Paris Nobody Actor Content Spectator

Homosexuality is a way of life that I've grown accustomed to.

Johnny Mathis

Life Way Homosexuality Accustomed

I love bleak things.

Denise Mina

Love Things Bleak I Love

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

Denise Mina

Work Start Action Universe Way Up

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Chris Pine

Perspective Control View You Choice

If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

Willow Smith

Want Will Pencil Through Stuck Pair

I believe in myself and my art so much. I've always trusted destiny. Wherever it takes me, I just work damn hard at the opportunity.

Priyanka Chopra

Work Opportunity Art Myself Me Damn

This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Health Care Impact Achieve Will Us

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

Marina Abramovic

Best World You Artist Bread Context