Gail Carson Levine Quotes

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Gail Carson Levine

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• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Man

• Talent is very hot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Talent
  • Very
  • Hot

• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• I've always wanted to do a period piece.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Always
  • Period
  • Wanted

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Grace
  • Shot
  • Even

• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Running
  • Run

• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

  

  Michael Foreman
  • Book
  • Story
  • Friendship

• I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Work
  • School
  • Mother

• I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.

  

  Daniel Pinchbeck
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Help
  • Small

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction