Emma Stone Quotes
My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self.
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I always played to win.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
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I'm interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I'm also interested in drones, Bitcoin, and 3D printing.
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I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
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Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.
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Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.
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My parents were very relaxed about music.
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It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self.
