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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

Mary Gaitskill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father School War Parents College

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

John Mayall

Start Learn You Blues Jazz More

More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.

Robert J. Waldinger

Connections Loved More Emotional

Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss!

John Sununu

Budget Years Lead Own Recommendation

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Amy Adams

School High School Down Numbers High

Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to replicate it exactly, the way I got around it was by inventing a new narrator.

Sophie Hannah

Style Writing Trying Unique New Way

Before I starred in 'Million Dollar Baby,' I wasn't really a boxer. I just worked hard to learn as much as I could before we were there on set.

Mike Colter

Baby Learn Hard Dollar Just Million

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

Dinah Manoff

Time Think Not Knowing You Knowing

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Brian Eno

Help You Clumsy Like He Moved

Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.

Poppy Delevingne

Sleep End Moments You Important Out

I tried snowboarding before, and I suck at it.

Pepa

Snowboarding Suck Tried I Tried

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

Paul Thomas Anderson

School You Information Want Con

I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.

Sherri Shepherd

Tired People Me Looking Look Used