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Mary Kay Andrews Quotes

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

Mary Kay Andrews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Crazy Christmas Out Working Blocked

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Learning Live Time Shoes School You

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

Knowledge Time Progress Man Space

I'm guilty of being perceived as having narrow taste. I went after the artists that I thought were important - Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and stuff.

Thought Guilty Important Taste Stuff

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Time Words You Exit Thread Like

One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.

Time Why Way Seem Original Date

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness Enjoy You Depend Much How

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

Short Attention Always Bored Get

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

World You Country Will Safe Where

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

Great I Am Story Think Facts Feel

For as long as I can remember, I've had John Michael Higgins in my brain in the funny department.

Funny Brain Remember Long I Can Had

The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.

Myself Yourself Me Start You Choose

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on.

Think Seeing Play Write Air Stage

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