EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.
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Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.
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I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
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I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
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Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
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When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.
