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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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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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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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
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I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
