Gail Carson Levine Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I like risky stuff.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Living without passion is like being dead.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.
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I'm nervous whenever I perform.
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The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
