Emily Oster Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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My father is a big guy; he's had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that's scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don't want that.
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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
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As people do a task, they improve at it.
