Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
Quotes to Explore
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
