Emma Donoghue Quotes

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Emma Donoghue

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• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Start

• Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Love
  • Hate
  • See

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • God
  • Soul

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • May
  • Power

• I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Me
  • Football
  • Thought

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Author

• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Fruit

• Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Test

• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Doing

• No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Mind
  • Control

• All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard.

  

  John N. Mitchell
  • Good

• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Problem

• Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Today

• Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

  

  Cissy Houston
  • Good
  • Great
  • Children

• For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  

  Emma Donoghue