Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it.
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Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
