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Emma Bracy Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Statistics show that voter turnout is significantly lower for midterm elections than presidential ones, which impacts the overall election results. Only 37% of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterm elections; the lowest voter turnout since WWII.”
— Emma Bracy, How To Vote in the Upcoming Midterm Elections: A Primer
Tagged: voting, Politics
“I heard once that the act of repetition makes something true.”
— Emma Bracy, If You Want to Be a Good Friend You May Want to Do This One Thing
Tagged: Friendships, Friends, Gassing People Up, compliments
“For Nicolas, 23, Friends makes everything feel okay — even when it’s clearly not. This is not about a feeling of relatability ('It’s not relatable,' he says), nor about it being good TV ('It’s not as good as Seinfeld or Frasier') but about the fact that Friends unites people.”
— Emma Bracy, Why did Netflix spend a literal fortune to save the show 'Friends'?
Tagged: Friends, Entertainment, TV Shows
“For me, holiday celebrations are never as fulfilling as the promise of holiday cheer suggests. So I made a choice: Instead of investing in complicated dynamics and being reminded of unresolved shit, I stayed in Alabama, 1,000 miles away from my real home and closest blood relative.”
— Emma Bracy, The Holidays Are an Excellent Time to Do Whatever You Want
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas celebration, Traditions
“I like to imagine that this person is truly invested in thinking through the ways humans and technology interact. That they’ve read Audre Lorde, believe a relationship is sharing deeply any pursuit with another person, and have purposefully created a boundary between their Instagram persona and their personal life to uphold that definition.”
— Emma Bracy, What Does it Mean to be "Instagram Official"? An Investigation
Tagged: Instagram, Couples, instagram official, Relationship Milestones, Relationships
“I believe survivors. Those who can and do come forward, and those who cannot or do not choose to. I stand behind Anita Hill, Christine Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick and all of those whose names I do not know. And I’m eager for this conversation, and the action it inspires, to broaden and deepen in every direction.”
— Emma Bracy, What Comes After Believing Christine Blasey Ford
Tagged: Me Too, Politics, Sexual Assault
“In our culture, the act of celebrating is very tied to specific reasons for celebration — birthdays, graduations, marriages and the like. There are certain markers that are universally understood: We eat cake. We dance. We break piñatas. 'But shame-eating a cake in your crib because you’re stressed and lonely is different than eating cake with your best friends because someone had a baby,' Sarah says. 'In that sense, celebration is an energy, an awareness, it is possible at all times and is present wherever there is a human spirit.'”
— Emma Bracy, How to Celebrate When Everything Feels Bad
Tagged: Celebration, Self-Love
“I got into elfing — I use it as a verb — because I’m an actress. I was doing a little show and my director who also works as a Santa Claus would come to rehearsal after a full day of sitting, they call it, as Santa, and he would bring gifts and letters that he got from kids and tell us hilarious stories. I just thought it sounded like a really funny, weird thing to do around the holidays. Turns out: It is. It’s so hilarious being an elf.”
— Emma Bracy, What It's Like to Be a Professional Elf(and Other Holiday Employments)
Tagged: Christmas, The Holidays
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