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Mary Karr Quotes

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Yourself People Writing Young Write

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Jessica Savitch

News Entertainment Events Out Cannot

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Success Men Effort Goal Get Cult

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Imagination Opportunities Tools View

If it happens, I'll be proud, and it would be a dream come true, though I doubt I ever thought I'd be a Hall of Famer when I started. It wasn't until late in my career that people started to mention it, and you start thinking about it a little bit.

People Start Proud Thinking Thought

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Mary Ritter Beard

Long Journalism More Agree Sure

The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Power Push America Strategy Logic

'Hedwig' was the first audition my agent ever sent me on. I still have the slip of paper where I wrote down the appointment. I wrote down, 'Headwitch and the Angry Itch. Yitzhak. Croatian ex-drag queen billed as the last Jewess of the Balkans Krystal Nacht.'

Angry Queen Me Down First Where

I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.

Opportunity Finding Acting Started

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

Teacher Great Man School Talent

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Down Champions Get Kicked

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

Science Teacher School Mom High

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Theatre Learn Actor Try Years Eight

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