Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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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 never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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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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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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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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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
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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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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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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 have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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Over its 40 years, Muppets on 'Sesame Street' have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent's deployment overseas, and a death in the family. But the show is addressing incarceration in a way it didn't used to: by bringing the show directly to the kids and families it wants to reach.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
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Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.
