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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On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
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It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.
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I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
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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.
