Emily V. Gordon Quotes
You didn't have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters' humor, because at its heart, 'Party Down' was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we've all had to work just to get by in the meantime.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
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Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.
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I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
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You didn't have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters' humor, because at its heart, 'Party Down' was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we've all had to work just to get by in the meantime.
