Gail Collins Quotes
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
