Margaret Heffernan Quotes
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
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The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.
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No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.
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The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
