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.
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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.
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Talent is very hot.
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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.
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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.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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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.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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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.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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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.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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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.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.
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We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
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I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
