Emily Lazar Quotes
I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
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You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
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I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
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I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.
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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.
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I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.
