Gail Sheehy Quotes

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

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We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil.

Trudie Styler

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Getting married young was the worst experience of my life. It was horrible - really horrible.

Lisa Jewell

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I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

Corey Stoll

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If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.

Britt Robertson

I AmI CanPlayAm

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

Brian O'Driscoll

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When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

Arundhati Roy

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I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Alison Goldfrapp

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My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

Phoebe Philo

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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Peter Greenaway

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