Emily Giffin Quotes
I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.
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I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
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I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.
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I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.
