Mary Karr Quotes

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1955

Topics

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I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is rotated in and out. I am very use to dealing with people's methods. And perspectives.

Melissa Rosenberg

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They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.

Robert J. Bentley

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Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.

Angus Deaton

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Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

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Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Robin Tunney

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I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

Julia Cameron

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I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Chuck Schumer

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I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding.

Tim Kennedy

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I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

Marianne Elliott

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I love running dresses! I need to make working out as enjoyable as possible, and a cute outfit is definitely part of that.

Lindy Booth

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My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

Liberty Ross

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I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.

Lil Rel Howery

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