Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

Gabrielle Zevin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1977

Topics

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So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

Jenny Holzer

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I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

Andy Kindler

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When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Janet Yellen

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Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

Janice Dickinson

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When I started modeling, I was told to tan, but I always protected my face.

Christie Brinkley

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The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

Anthony Browne

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I want to be remembered as a star.

Allu Arjun

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I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.

Peter Capaldi

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Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

Lilly Singh

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I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

Lev Grossman

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As a young girl, there are pressures that come with any career, but I decided when I got into this I didn't want to be perfect.

Kelsea Ballerini

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