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Gloria Emerson Quotes

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 19, 1929 - August 3, 2004

Topics

Life Job New York My Life New Years

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.'

Moment Thinking Remember Enjoy Go

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

Time Sun Face Think Care Skin

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

Work Isolation Independent Always DC

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

War Vietnam Crusades Different

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Experience Youth Small Enthusiasm

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Morning Eyes People World Television

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Myself Day Sleep Breakfast Me Week

I love my life so much. I wouldn't change anything.

Life Love Change My Life Anything

The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!

Funny Good Truth Myself I Am Comedy

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

Freedom Speech Freedom Of Speech

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

I Am People Know Crime Minds More

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

Lazy Nothing Crime TV Else Turned

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