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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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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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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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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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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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
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We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.
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War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.
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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
