Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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He didn’t know anything about hummingbirds except that his father had told him that they liked to fight. So maybe you could like to fight and still be beautiful, like the hummingbirds.
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Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.
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This is a small, limited experience, but it has enough follow-up to show us that tissue engineering is a viable tool that will allow us to tackle problems of similar magnitude.
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It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.
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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
