Gayle Forman Quotes
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
Quotes to Explore
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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I was born with an evil face.
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In the words of Marcel Proust - and this applies to any woman in the world - if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning... you're in.
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
