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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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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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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I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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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.
