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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You have to open up on stage.
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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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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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Our laws force women into celibacy on the one hand, or abortion on the other. npg Both conditions are declared by eminent medical authorities to be injurious to health.
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
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And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you and watch the wind blow by.And all I wanna see is you and me go on forever like the clear blue sky.Slowly, there's only you and I.And all I wanna do is watch the wind blow by.
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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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'Dirty Dancing', 'Grease', those were the movies that I used to watch over and over and over at my grandma's house when I was a little girl. I just remember watching them, and I always wanted to be Sandy, and I wanted to be Baby. I wanted to be the girl who's lifted in the dance, and she's beautiful and all those things.
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I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.
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Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.
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As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.
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What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
