Emma Roberts Quotes
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John Boehner is a friend.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
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Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.
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I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
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Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
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I don't feel 'possessed' or 'invaded during sessions. I don't feel that some superspirit has 'taken over' my body. Instead I feel as if I am practicing some precise psychological art, one that is ancient and poorly understood in our culture; or as if I'm learning a psychological science that helps me map the contours of consciousness itself.
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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.
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I'm obsessed with heels.
