Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.
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I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where Christian love is a reality.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.
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Respect is such a simple and easy thing to have and to give, and it doesn't cost anything.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
