Emma Forrest Quotes
When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
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You live day by day. You can't build your life.
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Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.
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I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
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When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
