Emma Donoghue Quotes

I read three books a week.

Emma Donoghue

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• I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Heart
  • Someone
  • Sleeve

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• 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.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Good
  • May
  • Proud

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Person
  • Living
  • Reputation

• 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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Change
  • Will
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Important
  • Society
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Fight
  • Girls

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• 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.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Community
  • Never
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • True
  • Balance
  • Sympathy

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Marriage
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Public
  • Acceptable

• Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Best
  • Characters
  • Sides

• Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Cheese
  • Spray

• Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Doubts

• I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Jazz
  • Ride

• A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Intelligent

• Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Real
  • Enemy
  • Fundamentalism

• I read three books a week.

  

  Emma Donoghue