Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I think before 'Saw' came along, there really wasn't a movie franchise that actually went out there and said, 'We're going to come out with one every year during Halloween and make that our trademark.'
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A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
