Gail Collins Quotes

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

Gail Collins

• Friends
• Words
• College
• Myself

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Myself
  • Fire
  • Tried

• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Thought

• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Copy

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Confidence

• Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Almost
  • Seem

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • College
  • United States

• I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.

  

  Imelda May
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Myself
  • Media
  • Student

• I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Reflect

• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Gossip

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Friends
  • Competition

• My parents were willing to spend time and invest time in my hobbies, no matter how odd they seemed. When I was really young, I collected rocks and minerals. But mostly I would hang out with friends, playing basketball. It was not the most eventful childhood, but I think that's good.

  

  Daniel Schwartz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Humanity
  • Moment
  • Ship

• Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Universe
  • Communication

• In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Space

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College