Gail Sheehy Quotes
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
-
Expenditures rise to meet income.
-
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
-
I was an expert horseman.
-
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
-
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
-
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
-
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
-
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
-
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
-
We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
-
Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
-
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
-
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
-
There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
-
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
-
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
-
You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
-
I want to help people; that's it.
-
My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
-
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
-
I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.
-
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
