Emma Donoghue Quotes
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.
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For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.'
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But my big thing was always the blues.
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I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
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Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.
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I read three books a week.
