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 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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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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The fact that I have done films down South didn't boost or hamper my chances here. In fact, I was still shooting for both my Telugu films when I met Ashu sir for 'Mohenjo Daro.' During the audition, he gave me five scenes with lengthy dialogues. Once I cleared them, he gave me a song to dance to. So, my Bollywood entry was no cakewalk.
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I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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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.'
