Emily Matchar Quotes
In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
