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Emily V. Gordon Quotes

Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.

Emily V. Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1979

Topics

Women Compete Undermine How Least

All I'm about is winning.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

Reach You Done Say Understand Never

I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.

School College Thought You Acting

My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'

Worst Batman Audition Tim Burton Tim

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

Today Waiting Me Know Young Never

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

Work World Cinema Rock Hong Kong

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow, the muggy air stifles - one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

Darkness Hotel Sweat Meet Hot Air

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

Christy Turlington

Parent I Can Get Any Frustrated

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

Girl Heart Pure Little Pure Heart

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.

Life Children Me Writing Inspire

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

Daily Think Giving Courtesy Seattle

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.

Lysander Spooner

Man Law Slavery Ship Wrong Right

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