Gail Sheehy Quotes

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1937

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

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I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

Jeanne Moreau

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I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

Amanda Peet

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To drive a semi-truck, a driver needs a commercial driver's license. While formal training isn't required, most drivers enroll in a program to help prepare them for the written and practical exams in their states.

Mary Pilon

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One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

Jonah Goldberg

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I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

Dierks Bentley

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Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I'm super thankful to him.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

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Communication is so key.

Ashley Tisdale

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Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

Alissa Quart

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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

William Wycherley

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