Emily Mitchell Quotes
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
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It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.
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I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.
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If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.
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Charter hired me - which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against cable companies like Charter - to advise it in crafting its commitment to network neutrality.
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
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Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.
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When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.
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Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
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A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
