Jacqueline Emerson Quotes
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
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Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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I think family is so important.
