Emily Perkins Quotes
I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
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Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
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I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?
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I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.
