Emily Weiss Quotes
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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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 like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.
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But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.
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If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.
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My spirit will rise from the grave and the world shall know that I was right.
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People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.
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I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
