Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Gabrielle Zevin

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Know
  • Always
  • Smoking

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Enough
  • Stupid
  • Nobody

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Movies

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Thought

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • California
  • Dope

• As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Myself
  • Quality

• I think I might have exaggerated some abilities in the past. Practical abilities for acting jobs you sometimes have on your CV - I have definitely exaggerated in meetings to get a job and then not been up to scratch on the day.

  

  Daniel Rigby
  • Up
  • Job
  • Past

• Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Movie

• When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book