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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The world is too violent right now.
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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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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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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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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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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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The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
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I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.
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As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
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I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.
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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.
