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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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.
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A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
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So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.
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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
