Emily V. Gordon Quotes

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

Emily V. Gordon

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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.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• 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.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Different
  • Effort
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Show
  • Would
  • Room

• The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • System

• Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Working
  • Something
  • Once

• 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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Hope

• To grow, people need to be challenged.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Need
  • Grow

• When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • You
  • Young
  • Afraid

• Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • True
  • Same
  • Presence

• 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.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fun

• 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!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • First
  • Making
  • Investment

• Politics is compromise.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Politics
  • Compromise

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • World
  • Guy
  • Focus

• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

  

  Al Ries
  • Success
  • Brand
  • Authenticity

• We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

  

  David Axelrod
  • God
  • Hand
  • Flying

• There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Security

• I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Divorce
  • Heartbreak