Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Gabrielle Zevin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

John L. Phillips

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Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Robert Irwin

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Once I graduated college, I did a couple of different sort of unique internship positions, if you will. I spent three months in my mother's office, who was then the CEO of our company, and I really got to just sit in every meeting that she had, and I would write down questions on a yellow legal pad.

Stephanie McMahon

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Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

Michio Kaku

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We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so that you make more money. I make more money, ordinary Americans make more money, and so does the government. That helps lessen the deficit.

Mick Mulvaney

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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Juan Cole

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I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

Chris Riddell

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Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

Sebastian Faulks

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Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

Thomas Friedman

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I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

Nicole Kidman

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I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

Martin Gore

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I find it very hard to approach people. I take a very long time to open up and become friends with someone.

Kriti Kharbanda

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