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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My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
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I experienced rejection numerous times.
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I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
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The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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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.
