EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I try to do my best.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
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Wear your love like heaven.
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
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I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.
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As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.
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What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.
