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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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 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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In us or through us the Primal Mind will have contemplated and enjoyed its own works and will continue to do so as long as human life endures on this planet.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.
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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
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I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.
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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.
