Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
But these thoughts broke apart in his head and were replaced by strange fragments: This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.
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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.
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But these thoughts broke apart in his head and were replaced by strange fragments: This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.
