Emily Giffin Quotes

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

Emily Giffin

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• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Tree
  • Potential

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Thoughts

• I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Short

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Real
  • Remember

• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • School
  • Things
  • Clothes

• A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

  

  Sydney Smith
  • House
  • Happiness
  • Conscience

• We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Chance
  • Response

• The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Up
  • History
  • Peace

• The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

  

  Aurel Stein
  • History
  • Learning
  • Sanskrit

• I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Packing

• My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • History
  • Mother
  • Literature