Emily Oster Quotes
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
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People tend to keep their distance.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.
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No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
