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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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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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
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Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.
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And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
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Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.
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Love is like the lion’s tooth.
