Gail Collins Quotes
Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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'It is enough', this malicious man tells us, 'to extinguish the line of the defeated prince.' Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?
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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
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The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
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We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
