Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
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When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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And you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
