Gayle Rankin Quotes
I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
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Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard.
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
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It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
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I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
