Adam Gidwitz Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching staff in the best possible position to execute when it counts. And to deliver to the highly supportive fans of Cleveland a proud, intense, impassioned, all-out drive to achieve a championship.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
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I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we're five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.
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It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make things of those things.
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I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.
