Gail Anderson-Dargatz Quotes
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
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I was really a shy kid.
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I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing that might need to hear it. I know music helped me a lot. And still does.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
