Emily Matchar Quotes
If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
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It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
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It seems he'd seen me in a play or plays.
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We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
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If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
