Emily Barton Quotes

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

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• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learn

• If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Animals

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Film
  • Story
  • Movies

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • High
  • Measure
  • Fraud

• People see images now more than they see movies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Movies
  • Now

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Men
  • Real
  • May

• It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm looking forward to fighting Chisora, getting him out of the way, and then fighting Klitschko for all the belts, but I don't think Wladimir is going to take the fight.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Fighting

• The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Fire

• And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing youSome decisions you don't makeI guess it's just like breathing or not wanting toThere are some things you can't fake

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sorry
  • Fake

• There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Diversity

• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Bird
  • Sadness

• It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Book
  • Working