Gail Sheehy Quotes
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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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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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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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 is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Peace for our time
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History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
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I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.
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It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
