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This [holiday] season is coming in a year that's been difficult for a lot of people. We wanted to do something that would be perceived as sensational.


Gail Lavielle

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GAIL ANDERSEN Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.
GAIL ANDERSEN In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was ...
GAIL ANDERSEN We will have a lot of new faces in the mix. We have good team chemistry, new guys are finding their ...
GAIL ANDERSEN We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future.
GAIL ANDERSEN We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacki...
GAIL ANDERSEN The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.
GAIL ANDERSEN It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.
GAIL ANDERSEN For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to ge...
GAIL COLLINS You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off...
GAIL COLLINS In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dram...
GAIL SHEEHY Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti...
GAIL COLLINS Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-3...
GAIL SHEEHY The delights of self-discovery are always available.
GAIL SHEEHY You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of ...
GAIL COLLINS You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper o...
GAIL GODWIN Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
GAIL GODWIN Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
GAIL POOL If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
GAIL SHEEHY