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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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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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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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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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
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The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
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Drawing identity from any area other than the source of life is a spiritual death sentence, and worse, it's contagious, because it gives birth to tribalism. However, when we return to our central identity of image – bearers designed to receive love from and reflect love to others, we are naturally invited to shed all of the unloving, fear – based tribal behaviors that come from loyalty to the label.
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Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, 'Include me'. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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Love is like the lion’s tooth.
