Emily V. Gordon Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Acting is in your soul.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
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I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.
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I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.
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Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.
