Gail Collins Quotes
I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.
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It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.
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What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.
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Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
