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Mary Schmich
American
Journalist
About the author
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.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#People
#Friends
Barbie is just a doll.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#People
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.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Support
#Trust
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Waste
#Jealousy
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.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Style
#Day
#Dress
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Art
#Variety
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Movies
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Life
#People
#Will
#Movies
#Favorite
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Tears
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.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Years
#Possibility
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Friend
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Reading
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Years
#Old
#Age
#Women
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Movies