Emily Gould Quotes

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

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• I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Country
  • America
  • New

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Flower

• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Myself

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • History
  • Violence
  • Laugh

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Family
  • American
  • Society

• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Building

• Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Books

• My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Art
  • Revolution

• I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Music
  • Song

• I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God, and I try to share it with as many people as possible.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • God
  • Confidence

• The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Why

• Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Live
  • Fall

• There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

  

  Charles Morgan
  • Earth
  • Hand
  • Moments

• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • People
  • Funny
  • Pain

• My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Journalism

• Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Funny
  • Genius
  • Lunatic