Emily Weiss Quotes
You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.
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Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul, - this makes life worth living.
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
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I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.