Mary Gordon Quotes

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

Mary Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1949

Topics

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Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

Jillian Michaels

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The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

Jim Courier

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The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

Robert Kiyosaki

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The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.

Michael Gove

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With me and basketball, it became part of me.

Mike Krzyzewski

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I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.

Jonathan Van Ness

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I'm persistent. In the early '60s, when I first started making the rounds in New York for theater work, I became more and more enraged every time I had an interview or audition that went nowhere, and became more determined. I haven't lost that.

Christopher Lloyd

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The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.

Craig Brown

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I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

Brad Thor

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In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

Arthur Lewis

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Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

Susan Burton

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The policy issue is this: the TSA should focus less on big data commercial background checks of passengers, which have proven unpopular and unreliable, and more time on securing flights by screening passengers for weapons and explosives.

Tom Bossert

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