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 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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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Russia has done some serious damage to its otherwise-good reputation for security of supply. Europe is going to have to take a hard look at their exposure and whether there's a way to fix that.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.