Gayle Forman Quotes
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.
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We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I think it's really progressive to talk about race in relationships. I think there is so much room for that, and there needs to be more of it.
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'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.
