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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Doing Go Sometimes Want Right

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

Women New Need United Nations United

In film, there's this kind of constant fear that you're going to be doing too much. That may be an unfounded fear because I love sizable performances on film, especially when they're by performers who push the boundaries of what people deem the right kind of size.

Andrew Garfield

Love Fear People Push Doing You

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Choose Country Right Without Left

I get excited about people doing stuff, and to whom I want to give. And I believe in giving back to people who have helped me and my family in the past. The key is getting excited.

Family Past People Me Believe Key

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

Stockard Channing

Time Moving Interesting Doing Media

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

Anxiety Trying Security Being There

I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Family Good Myself Busy Loved You

I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.

Habit Three More Days One Thing

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Life Live Time Day Growing Up World

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.

Dionne Bromfield

Easy Everyday Songwriting First Hard

I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

Dionne Bromfield

Friend Mother Best Me Bond Say

Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Good Heart People Song Think Lonely

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