Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
Quotes to Explore
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
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From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
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If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don’t think it would be around.
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It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
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People just wanna talk. They wanna create negative things about you and your life and make up things. You can't let them affect you!
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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
