Emily Kokal Quotes
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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People never believe you.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
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Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
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I appreciate short, perfect pop songs.
