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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
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If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.
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The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
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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.
