Emily Yoffe Quotes
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.
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You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.
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A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
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Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
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Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
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I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well.
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I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
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If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
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The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.
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I watch a lot DVDs. I don't leave my room too much.
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Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.
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The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.
