Emily Weiss Quotes
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
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I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
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Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.
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So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spannerShe said 'eh, I know you and you cannot sing'I said 'that's nothing you should hear me play piano'
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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result.
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We believe the problem between ourselves and Eritrea will have to be resolved through dialogue, but it takes two to tango.
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I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).
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When no one else signs me.
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Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.
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Nobody said being platinum was easy.
