Emily Haines Quotes
Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
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I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.
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To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We belong to each other, and I feel a fierce need to tell that story, and it just so happens that a lot of these characters have been residing in pretty dark worlds.
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If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
