Emily M. Danforth Quotes
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
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Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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I do watch a lot of horror movies, so not a lot of things scare me anymore.
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I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'
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How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?
