Emily V. Gordon Quotes
It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you like your partner does.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.
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I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
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Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.
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You must work for yourself; for what you reject may be as important for you to have seen and thought about, as what you adopt.
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It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you like your partner does.
