Gayle King Quotes

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.'

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• When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • Career
  • Community

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Political
  • Government

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Strong

• My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Age
  • Sometimes
  • First

• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Star
  • Romantic
  • Brave

• If all that I was actually going to be allowed to have by the media was money, loads of money, then fuck it … What I actually wanted was something quiet and simple: a writer's community and respect.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Money
  • Community
  • Respect

• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop

• I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, 'you know I'm just happy all the time! I'm a joker, I'm a crazy man!' you know kind of thing. I think people understand I can turn that switch on but I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• I've done a lot of different kinds of things, so different people remember me for different things.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Life
  • Control
  • Stress

• If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I feel like I have time to think when I'm in L.A. There's something about the spaciousness of it.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Time

• If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.

  

  Don Lemon
  • World
  • Live
  • Proud

• I have an Internet radio show where people can call in for healing.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • People
  • Healing

• Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

  

  Colin Jost
  • Golf

• In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People
  • Opportunity

• Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Money
  • Red
  • Blue

• In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

  

  Louis A. Johnson
  • Light
  • Fighting
  • Military

• I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Remember
  • Couple

• I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.'

  

  Gayle King