Gail Sheehy Quotes
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
