Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

Gabrielle Zevin

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• Unbearable

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• Tone can be as important as text.

  

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• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  

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• I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

  

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• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

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• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

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• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

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• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

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• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

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• I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

  

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• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

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• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

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• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

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• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  

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• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

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• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

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• First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

  

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• The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

  

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

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• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

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• I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

  

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• Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Children
  • Night
  • Unbearable