Emma Donoghue Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
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I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
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My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
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Die Nationalökonomie entstand als eine natürliche Folge der Ausdehnung des Handels, und mit ihr trat an die Stelle des einfachen, unwissenschaftlichen Schachers ein ausgebildetes System des erlaubten Betrugs, eine komplette Bereicherungswissenschaft.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
