Emily Barton Quotes
I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.
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Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
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I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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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.
