Gail Sheehy Quotes
I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
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I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.
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She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
