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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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
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A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.
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When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances.
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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.
