Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
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I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.
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I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.
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The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?
