Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
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For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.
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First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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God's desire is that we excel.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
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I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
