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.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Jock Sturges

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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Toomer

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George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, 'If you all can't vote for me, don't vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.

Shirley Chisholm

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I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.

Robin S. Sharma

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Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

Michael Wadleigh

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It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

Mitch McConnell

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Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

Louis Fischer

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Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

Jason Fried

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If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Christopher McDonald

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Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.

Chris Pavone

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Yes, I do feel a deep responsibility every time, every character, everything that I do.

Corey Hawkins

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I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who'd been screened. For any comic trying to make something of themselves, that was like hitting triple 7s-jackpot.

Artie Lange

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