Emily Weiss Quotes
Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
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If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
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I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.
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I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.
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Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
