Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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Not long ago I stood with a friend next to an art work made of four wood beams laid in a long rectangle, with a mirror set behind each corner so as to reflect the others. My friend, a conceptual artist, and I talked about the minimalist basis of such work: its reception by critics then, its elaboration by artists later, its significance to practitioners today, all of which are concerns of this book as well. Taken by our talk, we hardly noticed his little girl as she played on the beams. But then, signaled by her mother, we looked up to see her pass through the looking glass. Into the hall of mirrors, the mise-en-abîme of beams, she moved farther and farther from us, and as she passed into the distance, she passed into the past as well.
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Love is like the lion’s tooth.
