Mary Karr Quotes

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.

Jeremy Sisto

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I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

John Hawkes

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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

John Ortberg

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I'm a below-the-radar girl. No one really knows anything about me.

Traylor Howard

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I've had failures myself before Uber.

Travis Kalanick

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I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

Tom Douglas

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Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Mickey Rourke

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Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor - but it wasn't the real thing, and was something that he could turn off when the cameras weren't running.

Michael Korda

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I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

Jason Robert Brown

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I've long been an admirer of Philip French's way of writing as well as his knowledge of films. He was one of the few critics to be aware, and make audiences aware, of the work of people on a film set other than the director.

Douglas Slocombe

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Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

Cindy Crawford

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The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

Anne Reid

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