Emma Tennant Quotes
My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.
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The fans always tell me im beautiful but I always tell them that no one will ever be as beautiful as them
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.
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My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.
