Gail Sheehy Quotes
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
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The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
