Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
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Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.
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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.
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Love is a storm that twists and mangles us. If you love—if you really love—if you have that kind of heart—then you know. (And if you don’t, there is no explaining.) The storm comes from within. There is nothing you can do to prepare.
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Could we perhaps be rearing a generation that might not be tough enough to be good Americans? For a good American needs to be tough.
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
