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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In the free-to-play industry, the most money-making games are often coming from making people fighting against each other and really hating each other and wanting to revenge, so they spend more money to dominate.
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Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.
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People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
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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.
