Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I would never walk off any show.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.
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Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'
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Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
