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Emily V. Gordon Quotes

If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.

Emily V. Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Success People Cool Underdog Looks

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

Jodie Whittaker

Life World You Forget Citizen Want

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

Yourself Think Doing You Wander

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

Steven Spielberg

Time Loss You Said Done Stunt

I wish the company and its associates all the best as Sears Holdings continues on its transformation.

Best Transformation Wish I Wish

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

You Nobody Done President Anything

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women Power Learn You Nobody Take

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Great Money People Ideas Back Now

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

Work Good Confident Never Anything

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

Waiting Breakfast Lunch Colleagues

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I Am World Questions Injustice Way

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

Christopher Paolini

Work Myself Me Baby Ego Think

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

Nature Beautiful Best Woman Man

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