Emily Gould Quotes
I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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All religions have been made by men.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!
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I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'
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My goal was always to make the girl look real and look beautiful. It didn't matter how much makeup. Sometimes it was none at all.
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I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.
