Emily Robison (Emily Burns Strayer) Quotes
It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
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I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.
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I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
