Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Men - not all men but a good majority of the ones I have known and worked with - tend to think of difficult situations in their lives as problems that need to be solved.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
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Men - not all men but a good majority of the ones I have known and worked with - tend to think of difficult situations in their lives as problems that need to be solved.
