Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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The world needs some help.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.
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Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.
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Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
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For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.
