Emma Donoghue Quotes
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.
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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
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There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?
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True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.
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The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.
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Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
