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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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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In high school, I tried out for every sport there was. But none of them would have me. When I was a freshman, someone asked me to go audition for a play with them. I got in and didn't want to do anything else for the next four years.
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I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.
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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
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When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.
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Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.
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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.
