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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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
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Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.
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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.
