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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
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In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
