Gail Sheehy Quotes
If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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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.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.
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I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
