Gail Collins Quotes
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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Sometimes we get to be the sunshine on someone's cloudy day.
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
