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Gail Sheehy

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AUDREY HEPBURN The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after tha...
NATALIE COLE I think there was an idea that we didn't have a right to look on private lands and that what happene...
LINDA PASADAVA I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they'...
SALLY KIRKLAND There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL Looking back at that period of time was very interesting to me - just what had happened to it and wh...
DEXTER WILLIAMS He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Everyone did everything possible to help him. It all happened so suddenly... there was nothing that ...
BUTCH WEST There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. ...
GORDON GOULD For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing el...
LIZZIE BROCHERE In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. The...
ELLEN DEGENERES 'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go...
PRINCE There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'S...
STEVE CARELL She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half. It was not...
KYLE WILLIAMS Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a...
BENJAMIN BRATT All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't w...
DAVEED DIGGS Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't...
DAVID R. ELLIS I think when I first realized that something interesting had happened was probably in 1994. There wa...
RAY TOMLINSON I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wag...
WAITE HOYT There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I'...
DEREK JACOBI I've been so lucky to do different things. The world in which 'Westworld' takes place is...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS There was a period there, after about the third day, that you think, 'Well, definitely something has...
BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY Every second, every day I couldn't get on the field, I missed it. There was nothing that could repla...
DAMIEN HESS It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's s...
DONNA DIXON As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a ...
JASON ALDEAN I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa...
TAYLOUR PAIGE It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where ...
CLIFFORD D. SIMAK There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was ...
KATE MICUCCI Dickinson got what he deserved. Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away...
OZZY OSBOURNE There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-...
CHRIS CARTER I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as so...
JOAN CUSACK I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live the...
NATURI NAUGHTON It was heartbreaking. After [the second jump], she was so upset that she nailed everything out of an...
KATARINA WITT When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would sa...
EVAN OSNOS 'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come t...
JONATHAN IVE When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after...
DAN GILBERT It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all th...
MARTI NOXON In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was s...
ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w...
ELLEN DEGENERES People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious....
KELLY MASTERSON There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started ...
GEORGE BRETT That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds ...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesti...
HOLLY HUNTER The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and in...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS There is nothing wrong with [calling it after] 54 holes. The whole way it was handled didn't make an...
PAUL AZINGER Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar...
MADELEINE PEYROUX The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the Unite...
SUSAN RICE I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of o...
CAM There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.
DANIEL CRAIG I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, a...
TIA MOWRY On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40...
CARSON KRESSLEY I think she misrepresented our position at City Council, and I think that there was not a very good ...
DAVE POTTER It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whol...
AUDREY HEPBURN It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whol...
AUDREY HEPBURN I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that&#...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me ...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. ...
AWKWAFINA I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They ...
MATT GROENING There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
MURRAY WALKER It was almost like a second birth of that experience when it happened at Nevada. I think our kids re...
GUS HAUSER Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the...
RON PAUL I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter...
JAMES BLUNT The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching ...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irrep...
ERIC RIPERT I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with t...
JIM LAMPLEY And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I s...
PATRICK MACNEE After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.
LEONARD AMBROSE It was little bit too late to come back in the second set. I was missing a lot on baseline, my serve...
MARAT SAFIN It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food e...
BUZZ ALDRIN There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's no...
DAVE LOMBARDO Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an int...
JIMMY CONNORS I think the rivalry was there the whole time and it is played that way. We came out and played hard,...
JEFF WILSON I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're...
ROBERT WAGNER I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about i...
PAUL FLEISCHMAN There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing...
NATASHA LYONNE There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
ANDREA BARRETT The silence was killing me.

And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Ke...
J. LYNN The Internet goes doot-doot-doot - it goes sideways. There's nothing hierarchical about it. And ...
MOLLY IVINS And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't bel...
CARLTON FISK People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There'...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and wha...
HENRY PETROSKI It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they ...
JANET MCTEER A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people&#...
JEFF KINNEY I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda ...
ALEXIS BLEDEL It would be naive to think that if there is an injunction, there would be enough for everyone.
BILL HUGHES Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting ...
MARK TWAIN I do love Instagram, and my kids are with me, like, 24-7, so it's inevitable that they'll be...
BRITNEY SPEARS I was perhaps a bit naive ... There were so many conflicting factions [in the Legislature] that you ...
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GAIL COLLINS What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cance...
GAIL PORTER Bald is the new black!
GAIL PORTER Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $70...
GAIL COLLINS There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
GAIL SIMMONS I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpay...
GAIL COLLINS When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
GAIL CARRIGER Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
GAIL PARENT I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Resi...
GAIL COLLINS Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald...
GAIL COLLINS I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't h...
GAIL KELLY Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
GAIL GODWIN You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at ...
GAIL KELLY I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's alway...
GAIL DAYTON How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the trave...
GAIL CARRIGER The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, ...
GAIL COLLINS Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, a...
GAIL HAMILTON Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.
GAIL ANDERSEN We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.
GAIL ANDERSEN