Gail Sheehy Quotes
One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
Quotes to Explore
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I take my work seriously.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.
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Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
