Gayle Forman Quotes
I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I come from an improv background, so the one thing I know when I'm doing 'Chozen' is that whatever he's doing at that exact moment is the only thing he's thinking about, and he will do it until he's conquered it.
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Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
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I would never do 'Playboy.'
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Especially as a teenager, you were so fond of Schiaparelli because she was slightly extreme, rebellious, and iconoclastic as well. That appeals to teenagers!
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A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
