Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.Gabrielle Zevin
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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.
Danica Patrick -
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.
Dale Carnegie -
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.
Oscar Hijuelos -
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.
Adam Hasner -
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer -
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.
Calvin Johnson
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
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.
V. S. Naipaul -
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz -
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.
Cara Delevingne -
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper -
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.
Hansika Motwani
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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.
Karen Kingsbury -
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
M. Ward -
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
Obie Trice -
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht -
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
G. Gordon Liddy
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison -
I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.
Ardal O'Hanlon -
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.
Alberto Manguel -
It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
Vanessa Paradis -
The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.
Jennifer Love Hewitt -
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
Gabrielle Zevin