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No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.


Emily Giffin

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EMILY DICKINSON I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT