Gail Sheehy Quotes
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about.
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We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
