Emma Donoghue Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.
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I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
