Gail Godwin Quotes

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Gail Godwin

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Life
  • Television
  • Being

• Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Animal

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Great
  • Country
  • Think

• The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Truth
  • Practice
  • Politics

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lift

• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Story

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

  

  Alison Fell
  • School
  • Womanhood
  • Rehearsing

• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Way

• I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Important
  • Exercise
  • Unimportant

• The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Economic
  • Starting

• I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Story

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act