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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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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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'
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I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.
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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.
