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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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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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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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
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Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
