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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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
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I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.
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God does arithmetic.
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The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
