Emily Murphy Quotes
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
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Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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Down time is not the name of the game.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
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I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.
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I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
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Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
