Gayle Forman Quotes
After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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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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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.
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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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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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I have a restaurant in Sri Lanka, and I feel keen to open up something here in Mumbai and bring Sri Lankan food here in India. I feel we have so much in common, but we have a different cuisine, and I am sure people will enjoy here.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
