Gayle Rankin Quotes
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
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I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
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My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
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Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
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Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus. We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment. Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.
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...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
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Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
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Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
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I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.
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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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I could legitimately put someone in a headlock, for sure.
