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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Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Love is like the lion’s tooth.
