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.
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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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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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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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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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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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When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
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I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.
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We're all pretty individualistic.
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Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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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.
