Emma Donoghue Quotes

'Scared is what you're feeling,' says Ma, 'but brave is what you're doing.'

Emma Donoghue

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Problems

• I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Washed

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Coach
  • Quarterback
  • Swagger

• If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Best
  • Woman
  • Smile

• Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Poverty
  • Roads

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

  

  J Mascis
  • Bones
  • Some
  • Kick

• Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Will

• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Up
  • Great
  • Love

• I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Trying
  • Find

• Adulthood is hell.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hell
  • Adulthood

• I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Star
  • Wanted
  • Disney

• It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

  

  Larry Wall

• The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Character
  • Feeling

• You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Devil

• The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• 'Scared is what you're feeling,' says Ma, 'but brave is what you're doing.'

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Feeling
  • Brave