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 don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.
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If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.
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When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
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More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
