Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.
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Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.
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There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place.
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With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.
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There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
