Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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You have to open up on stage.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.
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What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
