Mary Gaitskill Quotes

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Mary Gaitskill

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I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

Jennifer Gilmore

WorldThinkFeelPersonalWayMore

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Jenna Bush

HopeTeacherServeBeingI Hope That

The London theater community has been very gracious to me.

Megan Dodds

CommunityMeLondonGraciousBeen

Woody Harrelson played a long-term love interest of Debra Messing's; I think it was for a whole season. They almost cast Nick in that part. They almost had given to him. But at the eleventh hour, Jim Burrows put in a call to Woody, and he said he would do it.

Megan Mullally

LoveThinkSaidHimCallLong-Term

It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

Robert Kraft

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Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

StoryYouKnowWillNeverSee

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

GoodThinkCriticismYouLookWant

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Simone Elkeles

HappyYoungWriteRomanceWonderful

It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

Tracy Pollan

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The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'

Roberto Clemente

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My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

Josh Turner

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