Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
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I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.
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As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
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There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.
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I'm striving to make things which are the most exciting things I can make that will fit in people's homes. And in that respect, working on the wheel is economically about the only answer I know, because one can, as Leach said, make 50 pots in a day. You can make 100 pots in a day. A really good potter can make 400 pots in a day.
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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
