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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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 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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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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Slavery, Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens proudly affirmed, was the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Accordingly, slavery's disintegration compelled the Confederate government to take steps to save the institution, and these policies, in turn, sundered white society.
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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.
