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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I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
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There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
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I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
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I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.
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Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.
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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.
