Gail Sheehy Quotes
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.Gail Sheehy
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather -
I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
Felicity Jones -
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
Hamish Bowles -
I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
Cameron Sinclair -
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Cameron Russell
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift -
You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
Samuel Butler -
If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
Sam Altman -
'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
Rami Malek -
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Nancy Gibbs
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
Val McDermid -
I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
Victor LaValle -
We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
Nan Hayworth -
Loosen your girdle and let er fly!
Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
Idina Menzel -
You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
Rand Beers
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
Mandy Patinkin -
Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.
Candice Huffine -
My dad grew up in western Nebraska. I'd visit all the time as a kid, and it's very much like the Wild West. It felt to me like a cowboy movie. Stuff like that made me become this dreamer at a young age.
Kevin Morby -
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy