Mary Gordon Quotes

My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

Mary Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Jim Dale

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Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

Joel Edgerton

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I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

Andrew Zimmern

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I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Andre Agassi

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I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Robert Klein

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Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.

Stephen Henderson

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I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

Steve Zahn

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After it was sewn back on, they did a proper job of it, and now it's OK. It looks a little distorted, and the nail has not grown fully back yet, but I'm thankful I still have my thumb, and I can still do my horn sign.

Ronnie James Dio

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Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I've enjoyed every moment of it.

Roy Jones Jr.

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I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

Martin Seligman

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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

Brian Greene

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I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

Alice Temperley

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