Gail Honeyman Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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My heart is really in building coalitions.
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I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.
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Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
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I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.
