Gail Collins Quotes
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.
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It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
