Emeraude Toubia Quotes
Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'
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The Internet and digital technologies can and will boost economic, social, and political development, including by vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of speech and expression, which is key to empowering human rights.
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Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.
