Sonya Hartnett Quotes

I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.

Sonya Hartnett

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LiveSimpleChildSmallWildLived

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

Joan Didion

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AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jerry Falwell

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Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

Amanda Seales

JazzWantsDoes

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

Sophie Okonedo

HomePeopleMeDriveFameLazy

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Robert Creeley

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When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands.

Rita Ora

TimeHandsYouNeedYourGrab

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Luc de Clapiers

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My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

Julia Stiles

MotherPeopleMeThinkAlwaysWhere

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

LiveMoneyEnergyPrioritiesMeeting

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

Christopher Koch

GodBelieveYouDownBasically

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

Christian Cooke

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There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

Coretta Scott King

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