Emily Blackwell Quotes
It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
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There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.
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It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.
