Emma Donoghue Quotes
When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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I don't want to endorse products that propagate fair skin at all.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.
