Emily V. Gordon Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You can't avoid being an egotistical person and ultimately somewhat narcissistic. You can try to curb it by recognizing that behavior. But at the same time, your repetitive behavior has its own psychology, and it's impossible to get out of that.
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I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
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I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset.
