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Parents are working full time and still poor. There has to be a greater effort on making work pay.


Gail B. Nayowith

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GAIL DEVERS While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a m...
GAIL DEVERS I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment...
GAIL DEVERS I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p...
GAIL DEVERS It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
GAIL DEVERS I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p...
GAIL DEVERS It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being...
GAIL DEVERS I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me...
GAIL DEVERS I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. ...
GAIL DEVERS A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was ...
GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
GAIL DEVERS I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.
GAIL DEVERS We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my k...
GAIL DEVERS In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something...
GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
GAIL DEVERS Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat...
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 ...
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