Emmanuel Jal Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
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I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
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I wouldn't want to do a solo project.
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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
