Emily V. Gordon Quotes
If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.
 
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	Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.   
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	To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.   
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	I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.   
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	Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.   
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	English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.   
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	I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.   
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	In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.   
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	I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.   
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	Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.   
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	Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.   
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	But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.   
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	My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.   
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	I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'   
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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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	I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.   
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	Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.   
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	Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.   
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	I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.   
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	'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.   
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	Wisdom sits with children round her knees.   
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	If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.   
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	The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.   
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	The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.   
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	If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					