Emily V. Gordon Quotes
You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.
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It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
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Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
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What turn of body, what of lust Undiced? So we've worshipped you a little More than Christ.
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Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.
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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
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You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.
