Emily Gould Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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I am very much a Republican.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!
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For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.
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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
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Change is overrated.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
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No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.
