Emma Donoghue Quotes
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
Quotes to Explore
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I am a poor little deer.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
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I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
