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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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's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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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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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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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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The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
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Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.
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When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
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It's not impossible but it's difficult, for a non-white person to be British.
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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.
