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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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
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It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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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.
