Gayle Forman Quotes
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
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Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.
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I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
