Emily Oster Quotes
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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I think I get my alone time when I have to go fly and do a work trip. After work's done, I go check into my hotel, and I get to have a few hours to myself to order room service and just be quiet and silent.
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I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
