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 want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
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I was something of a late bloomer.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.
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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.
