Emily Yoffe Quotes
My inbox showed me how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible.
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Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.
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Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
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I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.
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The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
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The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree.
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My inbox showed me how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
