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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Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.
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I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.
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Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.
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Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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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.
