Gail Godwin Quotes
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
Quotes to Explore
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
