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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Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
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De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
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I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.
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I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.
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I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.
