Emma Donoghue Quotes

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

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• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
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• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
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  • Future

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
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• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fear

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
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  • Yourself

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Done
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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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• I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

  

  Candy Crowley
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• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
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  • Famous

• I shop more than most women.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Women
  • More
  • Most

• I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Read
  • Buy
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• Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys

• The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
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  • Live

• Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Time
  • Travel
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• Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world's reply: 'Sorry, you can't; we've already used it all up.' To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want.

  

  John Lanchester
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• I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

  

  Emma Donoghue
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