Gayle Forman Quotes
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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I enjoy being a woman. It's what I learned from years of experience in modeling. You learn how to seduce; how to be sensual, how to play. It's very important for a woman, I think. But it's not by beauty that you seduce. It's a meeting - it depends on the image the other reflects back to you, how they see you and make you feel.
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Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
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I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
