Mary Schmich Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Mary Schmich Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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‘The Hunger Games’ isn’t for everybody. But neither is ‘Anna Karenina.’
Mary Schmich
2
Barbie is just a doll.
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3
A line from one of my 1997 columns – ‘Do one thing every day that scares you’ – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don’t believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
Mary Schmich
4
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
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5
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
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6
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
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7
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you’ll have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
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8
Here’s a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can’t anticipate how you’ll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
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I couldn’t have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother’s death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
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10
TV happens. And once it’s happened, it’s gone. When it’s gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
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11
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
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12
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
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13
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
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14
In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
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15
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
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16
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same.
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17
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with those who are reckless with yours.
Mary Schmich
18
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
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19
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
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20
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
Mary Schmich