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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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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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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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
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People work hard.
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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.
