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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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
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My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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Love is like the lion’s tooth.
