Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do.
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Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
