Emily Berrington Quotes
You meet people and go, 'We're going to be friends forever!' then you get home and can't even remember their name.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.
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You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..'
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I use Facebook on a daily basis to share information about my work in Congress and across our great district. I put information about constituent meetings, video of various Congressional hearings, and share local news stories from around our region.
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I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs.
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I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
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You meet people and go, 'We're going to be friends forever!' then you get home and can't even remember their name.
