Gail Caldwell Quotes

What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

Gail Caldwell

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • School
  • Huge
  • Atlanta

• There is a supply for every demand.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Demand
  • Every
  • Supply

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Bills

• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Game

• In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • Business
  • Man

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Important
  • Food
  • Service

• When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Listening

• I'm barefoot whenever I can be.

  

  Shakira

• Not everyone can look the same, so as long as you look the best that you can look and you feel good, that's all that matters.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Good
  • Long

• 'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Gun

• I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Life
  • Paris

• We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Free
  • Obsessed
  • Classic

• The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Exists
  • False
  • Conclusions

• I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.

  

  Lee Pearson
  • Family
  • Bird

• What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

  

  Gail Caldwell
  • Enough
  • Stories
  • Leaving