Emily Robison (Emily Burns Strayer) Quotes
People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I really like performing for people.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.
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A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.
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The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.
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With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'
