Emily Robison (Emily Burns Strayer) Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
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when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.
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You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.
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My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.
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Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
