Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.
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I'm desperate to start a career in music.
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With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.
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I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.
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Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
