Emily Levine Quotes

I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.

Emily Levine

Recitation: by Male by Female

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At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.

Toussaint Louverture

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San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Tom Lehrer

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I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

Ron Rash

TimeStoryDecisionsAlwaysDialogue

I fell in love with New York.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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What makes Luke Cage unique isn't him being black. Yes, he is black, but he has other things.

Mike Colter

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I definitely want to act, but hosting is something that I am really enjoying. The first show I ever hosted was 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja.' I was super nervous then, but now I am very comfortable.

Mona Singh

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I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

GoodBusinessPowerGreatMoney

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Douglass North

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What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.

Christopher Guest

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My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn't want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday school every Sunday. She wanted to be in Bible study every Wednesday. The other days, she wanted to be on a fishing creek.

Shannon Sharpe

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I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents.

Sean Berdy

MusicPassionMeSpeechTherapyUp

I do comedy in my room by myself, so it's so different to see how that all works and get the behind the scenes on how they do the gory stuff.

Kian Lawley

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