"Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name."

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Source : "'Middle of Nowhere' Star Emayatzy Corinealdi on Her Breakout Leading Role". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 11, 2012.

Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

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“Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful”
“Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.”
“I don't want to be just a voice on the phone. I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship. That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn't get adversarial. We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out.”
“I was also partying a lot, and when you party that much, you feel irrelevant to the meaning of things; things hit you with a very sick center. And 9/11 is no exception to that. I really wondered: "How could anything go on?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.”

Source : "Rubicon executive producer Henry Bromell". Interview With Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2010.
“I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.”
“I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.”
“When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.”

Source : On not being Dead, as Reported

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