Gail Sheehy Quotes

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

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• The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Feet

• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Where

• If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Dark
  • Listen
  • Cry

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
  • Quiet

• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Like
  • Little
  • Gymnast

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • People
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Good
  • Enough

• I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Husband

• Everyone on this planet needs to be made aware that for several years now I have met and keep meeting people who no longer have AIDS, cancer, and almost any other disease you can think of, due to the continual and correct application of oxygen therapies.

  

  Ed McCabe
  • Cancer
  • Disease
  • Meetings

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Years
  • Husband
  • Cancer