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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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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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
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The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.
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If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
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Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
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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.
