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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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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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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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves.
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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
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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.'
