Adam Gidwitz Quotes
For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
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The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
