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Emily Giffin Quotes

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1972

Topics

Writing Person Try First Something

The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.

Work Family Hard Work Education Say

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

Failure Problems Beyond Single Well

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

Morning Wrong Summer Go Nothing

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

People Wall Street Upset Excess

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Robert M. Gates

Community Freedom Service Free Kind

Let's face it: 'Twilight' is kind of an easy thing to make fun of.

Fun Face Easy Kind Twilight Make

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Me Wind Cold Connected Never Gone

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Looking Better You Look Find Go

Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.

Travis Kalanick

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.

Life Father Compassion Me Game Push

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

Writing Laugh Political America You

I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

Misty May-Treanor

Time Cats Animal People House Dogs

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