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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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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I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.
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I was a pretty mediocre player.
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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.
