Emily Oster Quotes
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I think violence can never be justified.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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Technically, the Hurricane might have been able to win the Battle of Britain on its own. But for keeping up the spirits of the people on the ground while running rings round anything the Third Reich could throw at it? That was the job of the Spitfire, a symbol of British brilliance, a symbol of hope.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
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With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
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If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
