Emily V. Gordon Quotes

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

What online dating did was offer me the opportunity to go out with a bunch of different people from different industries; I really didn't want to limit myself with people who are in the entertainment industry.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

I do realise I need to expand my social circle so I can meet more people.

When you go out and meet new people, you can come up with new ideas and be enlightened and help the country become a better place.

I wouldn't mind if I had to travel every single day. I love meeting new people and experiencing new things, making new connections with people in different places.

You can learn a lot when you're around people that are completely different than yourself.

It's important to be involved in different things for me.

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

I like learning new stuff, also, and I can sit there and watch shows on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel or stuff like that and learn something new. I think once you've gone through such a long stage of learning one thing, you're not as well-rounded as you'd like to be.

I want to expand my horizons and mix with different people.

It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

I try to learn as much as possible about so many different things in order to be able to talk to everyone.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?