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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I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.
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When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.
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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.
