Emily Barton Quotes
It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
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People see images now more than they see movies.
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With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
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The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.
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For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
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The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things.
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It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
