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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Myself Book Grind Want Out Keep

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Great Tree Feet Grow Down Become

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

Michael Ian Black

Time Criticism Sometimes Something

I think I only went to college because it was close to the karate school.

School College Think Because Only

It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

Responsibility People High Seen Been

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

Time Forest Place Young First Time

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Martina Navratilova

Live Past You Nothing In The Past

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Become Religions All Religions

In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.

Donatella Versace

Good People Strong Think Look Way

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

Succeed Believe Trying You Whatever

Lately, I have realised that as an actor, I am representing certain aspirations to the world, and it's important that I respect the love people have for me.

Love Respect I Am People Me World

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

Love Discipline Fun Me Gym Boring

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

Myself Gender Say Kind Way Never

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