Gail Sheehy Quotes
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
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I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
