Ambassadors Quote by Emily Gould

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“I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.”

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Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details…

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No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

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A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support…

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If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to…

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I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness…

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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

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“And there was Sam’s charming Marxist thing of thinking that restaurants, new clothes, et cetera, were frivolities that only served to keep workers addicted…

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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

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“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where the narrator…

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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

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No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

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I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that…

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I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

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Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world…

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What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake…

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Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

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One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

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The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put…

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