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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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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The Apocrypha... ought to be bound up with all your Bibles; it contains much that is beautiful and wise, and there is in history nothing finer than the description of Eleazar's end.
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Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.
