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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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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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
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All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
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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.
