Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life.
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Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
