Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I will listen to any argument put to me.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'
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After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.
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It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.
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Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.
