Emily Weiss Quotes
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.
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I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
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I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.
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Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.
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It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
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I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
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We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution.
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You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
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I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
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I don't think anyone has a normal family.
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We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
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This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
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Where Halloween is concerned, I peaked in 2007.
