Emily Gould Quotes
I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
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I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
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I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.
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The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
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I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.
