Gail Collins
Related Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo... WENDY DAVIS Here in California, a lot of people are just kinda rude, and they're really impatient, especiall... CAYDEN BOYD MALCOLM MCDOWELL Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed d... WENDY DAVIS The dangers of TATP bombs can be seen in the case of Matthew Rugo and Curtis Jetton, 21-year-old roo... PETER L. BERGEN GAIL COLLINS It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. LAURA MOSER GAEL GARCIA BERNAL MOLLY IVINS And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In thos... SAM DONALDSON I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's. JOHN LEE HANCOCK My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will ... NATALIE MAINES JANIS JOPLIN JOHN LYDON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE WILLIE NELSON DAVID CRONENBERG F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON J. R. MARTINEZ BILL GATES In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Tex... TAYLOR SHERIDAN 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You... DIORA BAIRD I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, ... JOSH HENDERSON JOAN COLLINS EVANDER HOLYFIELD TOM COLICCHIO I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the ... JOHN SHERMAN COOPER RICK PERRY That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice. BILLY BUSH JOSH HUTCHERSON WENTWORTH MILLER JEFF DUNHAM It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you ... JOSEPH BOLOGNA NOAM CHOMSKY They still consider me a Texas boy, ... So, that's kind of cool for them to see their Texas boy get ... ANDREW LEWIS ANDREW LANSLEY KELLY CLARKSON MEL GIBSON Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas a... WENDY DAVIS I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also... POWERS BOOTHE Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you... DAVID ORTIZ It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn... KARY MULLIS DYLAN MORAN JOHN CUSACK I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it ... DIANE LADD There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that&... AL LEWIS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were ... ERIK HASSLE Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Some... JEFF BRIDGES The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice sy... JAMES ELLIS I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's ... STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN JOHN STEINBECK JOHN STEINBECK MARTIN PARR ELIJAH WOOD SHANNON LUCID TOM SELLECK LOIS LOWRY JOSH BILLINGS Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-def... PAT GILLICK Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk someti... ANDREA CORR EMMITT SMITH I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just m... JAMIE BELL It's kind of like when you have guests coming over to your house, and you haven't really pic... CHARLES SOULE M. J. ROSE JEFFREY R. IMMELT It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN AARON SPELLING GEORGE STRAIT I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want... RIC OCASEK When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow ... MEHCAD BROOKS My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN JOHN RALSTON SAUL But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes i... HARI KUNZRU NORMAN FINKELSTEIN JOEL SALATIN DAVID DEWHURST ANDRAE CROUCH MOLLY IVINS SHIA LABEOUF I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk ... JESSE METCALFE TAYLOR KITSCH My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York... LYNN COLLINS KENDRICK LAMAR BEN HOPKINS It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it'... BETTY BUCKLEY Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were ... BARBARA CASTLE There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thi... EDY GANEM TOM PETTY SIDNEY CROSBY I don't care if I never see Texas again. RAFER JOHNSON For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something... IO TILLETT WRIGHT I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anythin... JUSTIN VERNON
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GAIL CARRIGER GAIL TSUKIYAMA GAIL TSUKIYAMA GAIL TSUKIYAMA I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing t... GAIL SIMMONS I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv... GAIL SIMMONS I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I... GAIL SIMMONS First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu... GAIL SIMMONS Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together. GAIL SIMMONS There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that though... GAIL SIMMONS A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finis... GAIL SIMMONS I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'To... GAIL SIMMONS I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars... GAIL SIMMONS Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food... GAIL SIMMONS You don't get second chances in the real world. GAIL SIMMONS I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo... GAIL SIMMONS Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. GAIL SIMMONS Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors sh... GAIL SIMMONS I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that... GAIL SIMMONS I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts. GAIL SIMMONS Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night. GAIL SIMMONS I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have... GAIL SIMMONS It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b... GAIL SIMMONS I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY I do tend to overdo everything. GAIL PORTER You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go ... GAIL PORTER I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't. GAIL PORTER I read everything and anything. I love books. GAIL PORTER Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea... GAIL PORTER My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. GAIL PORTER I don't believe in God. GAIL PORTER The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and misera... GAIL PORTER Every day I do something that freaks me out. GAIL PORTER I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your ear... GAIL PORTER I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop... GAIL PORTER I try to cope with everything through humor. GAIL PORTER People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel. GAIL PORTER Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong. GAIL PORTER Scotland is the best place in the whole world. GAIL PORTER I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing. GAIL PORTER So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really... GAIL PORTER GAIL PARENT GAIL PARENT GAIL PARENT I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to d... GAIL O'GRADY The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.' GAIL O'GRADY GAIL GODWIN GAIL GODWIN GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Paras... GAIL CARRIGER As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores... GAIL CARRIGER Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunc... GAIL CARRIGER My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca. GAIL CARRIGER I pretty much will do anything for a laugh. GAIL CARRIGER At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t... GAIL CARRIGER To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I l... GAIL CARRIGER I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'... GAIL CARRIGER I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there does... GAIL CARRIGER Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell... GAIL CARRIGER As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific... GAIL CARRIGER I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and ... GAIL CARRIGER I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. ... GAIL CARRIGER Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ... GAIL CARRIGER Smoke machines are the best! GAIL CARRIGER I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ... GAIL CARRIGER GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL HAMILTON GAIL TSUKIYAMA GAIL HAMILTON GAIL GODWIN GAIL GODWIN GAIL PARENT GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL DEVERS GAIL GODWIN GAIL PARENT GAIL DEVERS I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL DEVERS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food. GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha... GAIL BLANKE GAIL GODWIN GAIL SHEEHY
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. 
The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrain... 
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixe... 
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, t... 
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur peop... 
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they'... 
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. 
I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding th... 
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of th... 
If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the s... 
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now,... 
I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w... 
They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 19... 
Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotyp... 
We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years. 
But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash... 
I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an en... 
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. T... 
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting mach... 
The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: peop... 
I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever. 
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terror... 
I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of ve... 
Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the wo... 
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of th... 
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the ... 
When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they have... 
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not... 
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu... 
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... 
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but th... 
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they hav... 
But how special is it to be inducted into a Hall of Fame in a place like Texas, because Texas is as ... 
Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of t... 
When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're... 
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person be... 
Always singing for the great state, for sure, ... But, you know, you don't want to do a song just be... 
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which t... 
I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the oth... 
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the ... 
This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money c... 
If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the min... 
Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is ... 
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas... 
And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the pla... 
You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found... 
Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they t... 
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... 
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play o... 
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'... 
Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,... 
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... 
When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock. 
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revis... 
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the p... 
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. 
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. 
When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation. 
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. 
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. 
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. Pe... 
I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody... 
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h... 
Everything seems simpler from a distance. 
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and... 
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ... 
When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I... 