Emily Barton Quotes
I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I choose to express myself.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.
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The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
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Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.
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I like criticism. It makes you strong.
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I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.
