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Ellen Goodman

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."

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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."

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Donna Grant

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

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Donna Grant

"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

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Donna Grant

"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."

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Donna Grant

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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Donna Grant

"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

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Donna Grant

"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car."

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Donna Grant

"We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph."

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Donna Grant

"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."

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Donna Grant

"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."

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Donna Grant

"People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet."

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Ellen Goodman
"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."

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Ellen Goodman
"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."

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Ellen Goodman
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."

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Ellen Goodman
"Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in."

Values

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Ellen Goodman
"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."

Work

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Ellen Goodman
"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."

Life

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Ellen Goodman
"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

Experience

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Ellen Goodman
"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."

Hate

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Ellen Goodman
"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"

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Ellen Goodman
"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."

Experience

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