Emma Donoghue Quotes
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.Emma Donoghue
Quotes to Explore
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
Laura Dern -
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
Barry Commoner -
There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
Karen Kingsbury -
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
Adam Hasner
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
Yann Tiersen -
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
Vince Gill -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson -
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
Patrick deWitt -
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. Housman -
There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
Taya Kyle -
A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.
Nagaru Tanigawa -
Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.
Cathleen Falsani -
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
Michael Nutter -
I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
Naftali Bennett -
Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
Mia Hamm -
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
Emma Donoghue