Emily Berrington Quotes
'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.
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I just want to do my job.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.
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My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
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'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.
