Emily V. Gordon Quotes
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence.
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There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.
