Emeraude Toubia Quotes
I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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You don't even have to be able to talk. Just sing and get famous. 'Cause James Brown's been singin' 30 years. I don't know what the fuck James is talkin' about!
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I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.
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I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.
