Gail Sheehy Quotes

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Andrew Young

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I think that there are three incredible brands in the news and information space. I think ESPN owns sports; I think the Weather Channel owns weather, and I want CNN to own news and information in the global digital video space.

Jeff Zucker

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Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

Michael Gambon

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I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Michael Arad

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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

Amor Towles

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People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

Steve Zahn

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The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

Simon Pegg

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I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Michael Sheen

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I had to ask myself if the reason I had never asked to direct before was because I really didn't want to, or because I didn't think I deserved a spot at the table.

Miriam Shor

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They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

Janis Karpinski

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Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

Donnie Yen

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Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power.

Cliff Sloan

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