Emma Donoghue Quotes
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
Quotes to Explore
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
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Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
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Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
