Margo Lanagan Quotes
There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!
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I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
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There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
