Mary Karr Quotes

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodBlessedBelieveSelfYouPerson

We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I don't know whether you remember - 'Ferdinand the Bull', the comic script. However, she decided, you're going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.

Jimmy Scott

TeacherSchoolMeRememberYouKnow

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

Jerry Leiber

BusinessMusicRomanticMeThought

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn

LeadershipLiveStand UpStandSay

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Robert Ballard

SeaLegalBetterCountryWantMars

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

Roz Chast

AlwaysAfraidUpSomethingGoing

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

Michael Pollan

HistoryTimePeopleSufferingCircle

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

Joyce Carol Oates

MeLookingFeelFastPageMean

There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.

Jonathan Groff

New YorkDoingPlayNewNothing

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph

WomenHopeGreatMenPeopleGo

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

Christine Baranski

WorkBestYouAbilityOnlyYour

I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.

Corin Tucker

WorkWomenCultureWomanThinkLong

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

Sheridan Smith

WomenPlayOldGetSophisticated

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