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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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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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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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.
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I saw that we were sort of struggling to get points. We'd let (Minnesota) get the game manageable. When I came in the game, the opportunity presented itself so I took advantage of it. I was just being aggressive because I had legs.
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I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.
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Blame is for God and small children.
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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.
