Emma Donoghue Quotes
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.
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I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.
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A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
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My Only Boss is Money.
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If you're a gardener you don't need a gym... You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
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I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.
