Mary Karr Quotes

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Michael Hastings

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My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and every Christmas, and sometimes I pop over during the year to say hi, and, of course, celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Stella Maxwell

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From my perspective, if I say that I'm done, I would hope - and I trust - that my corner would throw in the towel for me.

Rose Namajunas

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There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

Molly Ivins

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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Jonathan Coe

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I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

Chris Cornell

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You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

David Spade

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I can't swim, and I actually hate sand.

Chrissy Teigen

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I'm not really into musicals.

Christian Bale

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In my hometown, people I didn't even know started to recognize me: 'Oh, you're that kid that's doing well over there in Europe and with the national team!'

Christian Pulisic

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I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

Armie Hammer

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'2 Dope Queens,' it was just a way for us to showcase female comedians, showcase comedians of color, showcase LGBT comedians, and shake up the landscape and be like, 'Hey, there is more than just what is out there.'

Phoebe Robinson

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