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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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
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The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.
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I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
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The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.
