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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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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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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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Mo: I wish it were me instead of you.Sydney: Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.
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I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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.
