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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And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.
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Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.
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I feel like we have to fight for art.
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The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted with care in order to form a perfect union of the powdered cement, sand and water. This can be best accomplished by the use of the New England corn hoe on a board floor or by beating with a hand stamper; not much labour is required if properly applied. Mechanics can judge when the mixture is perfect by the appearance of the mortar, which, when properly prepared, very much resembles putty.
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From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
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I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.
