Gail Sheehy Quotes

If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodRelationshipYourselfThinkYou

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

John Burroughs

TreeMeNothingTopBottomCells

I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.

Mekhi Phifer

RoadAmericaYouCountrySeeBig

I support high academic standards. Period.

Jeb Bush

SupportStandardsHighAcademic

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

NatureGoodSnowRainSunshineWind

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

Robert Carlyle

LifeBalanceI AmMeDuckKnow

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

Mickey Drexler

MeSomeoneDoneFocusedOpenTell

I'm always going forward, and there's no limits.

Luke James

LimitsForwardAlwaysGoing

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

Louis C. K.

CareDieYouKnowWantWorking

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

Lizzie Armitstead

AchievementHappyBe HappyBetter

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

Jon Watts

GreatFeelMoviesI Feel LikeJust

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Diane Kruger

LiveBikeParisGoStreetRent

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

Derf

PunkRocker

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