Dorothy Gilman Quotes
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.
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After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.
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I come to play everyday.
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
