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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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
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The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.
