Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Quotes
I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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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.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range.
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I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.