Emma Donoghue Quotes

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

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• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • School
  • High
  • Goal

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Taught

• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Balance

• When I came to know that I have to do a dance sequence with him, I was nervous. After all, he is Hrithik Roshan.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Nervous

• I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Up
  • Against
  • Progressive

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Character
  • True

• There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Support
  • Nobody

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• 3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.

  

  Larry Niven

• The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • America

• I am tired and I am dying, and I want to be merciful. I want to forgive you. But when God summons me and says, But it wasn't for you to forgive, Mullah, what shall I say?

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • God
  • Tired
  • Dying

• You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • Long
  • Dream

• Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Time
  • Long
  • Guy

• The reason why I think Reddit is still around and some of our competitors are not is because we were really adamant about maintaining the integrity of the site.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Why
  • Integrity

• It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Mom

• All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Work
  • Nature

• Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Fate

• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Mean
  • Wonder
  • Sports

• Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life.

  

  Arthur Trudeau
  • Character
  • Laws
  • Build

• I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Together
  • Singing

• What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

  

  Suzy Amis
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Wanted

• I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

  

  Emma Donoghue