Emily Barton Quotes
Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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Economy: cutting down other people's wages.
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.
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“Perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her”
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If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.
