Emma Donoghue Quotes
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
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I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.
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Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
