Mary Gauthier Quotes

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

Mary Gauthier

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FollowSoldierBecauseTerribleMake

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

Jessica Chastain

LifeMy LifeEmbarrassedBeingSpent

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Anita Elberse

BusinessEntertainmentRemains

I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

Amelie Nothomb

LifeImaginationHappyStupidYou

I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop.

Ruth Reichl

FruitAdmitNeverLoopHad

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

ThinkYouBadToxicWithoutThings

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

Mini Grey

ChildrenMyselfBookFishStairs

I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.

Jonathan Franzen

FriendshipLiveThinkSomeoneCould

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.

Diego Luna

TimeListeningPinkFirst TimeFirst

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Doris Lessing

MarriageThinkTalentsBeenThan

Wherever people come from, that's irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. What is important is that they bring a skill or a talent or something that's going to benefit America.

Corey Stewart

TalentPeopleAmericaSkillBring

For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.

Allan Gurganus

SexyHelpYouCareerSexFind

I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.

Allison Janney

LifeThinkComedySexDramaMessy

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