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Dorothy Gilman Quotes

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 25, 1923 - February 2, 2012

Topics

Time Best Waiting Feel Late Nothing

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

Community Farming Up West Virginia

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

Marriage View Christian Point Of View

You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one's there to see you.

You See Gain Level Performing

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

Character Relationship Think You Say

I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want people to feel sorry for me. I didn't want people to see me as disabled. I wanted to live a life of adventure and stories.

Life Live Adventure People Me Sorry

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

Mary Wilson Little

Girl People Youth Sick First His

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Michael Mandelbaum

Matter Policy Losses Gains

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

School Husband Lived Us Five Raise

I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey.

Wanted Female Jim Jim Carrey

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

Clayton M. Christensen

Beginning Balance End Better Career

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Creative Universe Alive Touch Most

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.

Armando Iannucci

Business Become Right Awareness Left

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