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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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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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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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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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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Basically I made her Sara Pocock listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if you look at the art from George Clinton albums there are two or three artists he worked with...I made her listen to my album too so all the images are from jokes I made. I wanted it to look like the thoughts that are coming out of my brain which is what comedy is anyway.
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They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.
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Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
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My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.
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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.
