Emily Weiss Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
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I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.
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The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich. Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.
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This is hard to admit, but historically, I haven't worn sunscreen. I know - not good.
