Mary Gordon Quotes

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

Mary Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

Maurizio Sarri

LikeReadSomeMuchVeryNovels

The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.

Metro Boomin

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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

Trent Reznor

BadMoodWriteBad MoodSongsMost

I'm really interested in the form, putting one piece up against another and finding something corroborative in another voice. I've done a lot of that.

Roger Rees

VoiceFindingDoneUpSomething

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Ron Chernow

WorkExperiencePeopleRetirement

Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?

Loretta Swit

PainParentsDoctorYouNewWant

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

Josh Homme

WorkGoodMyselfPeopleThinkDown

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

Apollonius of Tyana

FearManKnowTeachHimCoward

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

Ryan Holmes

RealityBackBrilliantImproveAtoms

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Richard Chamberlain

GodMyselfReligionMeConversation

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Kenzo Tange

CreativeTraditionCreationSure

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Horace Mann

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