Emily Haines Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the truth. I mean, I'm nervous about any prescriptions for what a writer should or shouldn't do.
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It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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You don't want to be conscious of everything.
