Emily Gould Quotes
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Quotes to Explore
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I love science fiction.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
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It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.
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I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
