Gail Sheehy Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious – seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.
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while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
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I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.
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I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
