Gail Caldwell Quotes
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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If you look at the better teams in the league when they get a team down they finish out the game. That's kind of what separates us from those teams right now is playing 48-minute games.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.
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I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy... because you are so close to your dad.
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One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
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I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.
