Gail Sheehy Quotes
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I don't want to get fat.
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'There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.'
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
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I get bored of vacation.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
