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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I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.
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The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.
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Before even considering an exercise and nutrition program, I recommend that the person put on some swim trunks and have somebody take a photo of them. Then take a good look and ask yourself: Is this who I really am? If you don't see yourself as that, you have the opportunity to change it. But you need to change your mindset.
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As utility companies work to achieve full compliance with clean water standards, Congress must ensure our nation's most vulnerable are not priced out of life's most essential resource.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
