Emily V. Gordon Quotes
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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In addition we also hire many senior citizens.
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.
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I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
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Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.
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I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'
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If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.
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I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.
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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
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Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature.
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I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
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I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.
