Emily Weiss Quotes
French pharmacies probably feel like CVS to French people, but to me, they feel like a real-life version of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.'
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.
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Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
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I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.
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French pharmacies probably feel like CVS to French people, but to me, they feel like a real-life version of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.'
