Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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I have no regrets.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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Praise the Lord for all good things. We blew their balls into shards of dust,Into shards of fucking dust. We did it. Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
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Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
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The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night.
