Gary Smalley Quotes
How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
Quotes to Explore
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
