Emily Giffin Quotes
I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
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I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
