Gavin DeGraw Quotes
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
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My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.