Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
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Life is a school of probability.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I would like to have a rematch against Fabricio Werdum.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.
