Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
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Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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Politics is compromise.
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I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.
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My hair is very straight - people always think that I've ironed it when I get to set.
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The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
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Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
