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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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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Old love, old love, How can I be true? Shall I be faithless to myself Or to you?
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I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.
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My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
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Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
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I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
