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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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
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I still feel like we're the underdogs, but I feel like people respect us now. People might not like our band or love our music, but I think people respect the fact that we've been doing this for many years and are still doing it and still able to play three giant New York City shows and have people come out.
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Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.
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What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
