Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
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When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.
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I feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw 'The Office' coming, I never saw 'Inside Out' coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life.
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Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.
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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
