Emily Giffin Quotes
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
Quotes to Explore
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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Too clever is dumb.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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I would like for the offense to look good, but that's not going to be easy against one of the best defenses in the league that I've gone against, ... It will kind of depend on how the game goes for us, but our game plan would be roughly a third, a third and a third.
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There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
