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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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.
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Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.
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You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
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I appreciate short, perfect pop songs.
