Emily Susan Rapp Quotes

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

Emily Susan Rapp

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• Ego
• Notion
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• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • Real
  • Reflection

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Important
  • Think
  • Fear

• You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Saying
  • Radio

• All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Find
  • Environmental

• Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Day
  • Write

• I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Fun

• Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Important
  • Money
  • Happy

• Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Good
  • Words
  • Dog

• Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Saying
  • Means

• A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Why

• There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Men
  • Drunk

• I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Pretty

• Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Life
  • Success
  • Rap

• People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Notion