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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When in doubt, make funny faces.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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It had no affect on me whatsoever. Um... I consider Jay a very good friend of mine. I also consider Dame and Biggs very good friends of mine. With me not being a Roc-A-Fella artist, with me just being a friend of both and not being tied to them in the Roc-A-Fella situation, I was still able to maintain personal relationships with both of them.
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I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
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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.
