Emily Giffin Quotes
For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
Quotes to Explore
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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Everyone now, they look back and they're like, 'What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?' And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please...
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.
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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
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For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
