Gail Collins Quotes
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I don't feel closeted.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.
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Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.
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You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.
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Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
