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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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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He wanted to tell me that he thought he finally knew why Christ said to call no man Fool. Christ had said it, Seymour thought I'd want to know, because there are no fools. Dopes, yes - fools, no.
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I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
