Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.
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A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.
