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.
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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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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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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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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
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And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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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.
