Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.
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When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
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John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
