Emilia Wickstead Quotes
My wedding dress was featured by 'Vogue' and 'American Town and Country,' and from there, people started to come to us because they had seen that dress.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal ... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.
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My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.
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I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
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My wedding dress was featured by 'Vogue' and 'American Town and Country,' and from there, people started to come to us because they had seen that dress.
