Emma Donoghue Quotes
I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
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I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
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I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
