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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The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
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The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.
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There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.
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It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
