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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If God had meant for me to be religious, he would have alphabetized the books of the Bible. It was just too hard for me to find what I was looking for, especially if I was looking for it through a few glasses of scotch.
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Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
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There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
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The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'
