Gail Collins Quotes

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

Gail Collins

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• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

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• I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

  

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• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

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• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

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• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

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• My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

  

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• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Women
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• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

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• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

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• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

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• My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

  

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• Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

  

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• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

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• A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.

  

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• I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

  

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

  

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• The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family