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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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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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
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I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
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Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.
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Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.
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As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
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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.
