Gail Collins Quotes
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
