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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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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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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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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When I moved to New York City from Israel, I came here with the idea to get a great job, have tons of fun, and make a lot of money. Growing up in Israel, I watched a lot of American TV, and I thought it's what the 'cool' people did, and I wanted the same thing.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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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.
