Emma Donoghue Quotes
I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'Emma Donoghue
Quotes to Explore
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
Gary Oldman -
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller -
The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
Dan Deacon -
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins -
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer -
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern -
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward -
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie -
I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
Gary Lineker
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
Patrick Dempsey -
I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
R. A. Salvatore -
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
Nancy Pelosi -
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
Daniel Everett -
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
L'Wren Scott
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Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it just can open up and brings people a lot of joy. They can go from hating a room or hating a house to loving it.
Katherine LaNasa -
We hunger for connection to a larger community.
David Shields -
The confidence level that Steph is playing with now, obviously, you won't totally stop him. If I'm playing against him right now, I think I'd try to pick him up full court, get the ball out of his hands, try to be a little physical.
Chauncey Billups -
We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
Sam Riley -
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne -
I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'
Emma Donoghue