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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It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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By almost universal agreement, the most vague and ineffectual of all Presidents was Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and spent the next three years demonstrating how the country would have been run if they had just propped Taylor up in a chair with cushions.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.
