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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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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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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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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'Harry!' Boutin said. 'Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.'
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I've always put myself intensely into my work.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia... You're looking in the mirror, and you're kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. 'Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It's not what I'm mutating in my head. I'm not some sort of scary monster.'
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I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
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I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset.
