Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
