Gail Parent Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
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It was a fun show. At one point the barricade in front of the stage gave way, which scared the concert promoters because they thought people were going to get hurt. So we had to stop the show for a while. That was funny... Although I guess only funny because no one got hurt.
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When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
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I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
