Emma Donoghue Quotes

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Emma Donoghue

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The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Jim Webb

LifeGreatPeopleDemocracyThink

Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie.

Jerry Oppenheimer

DreamsChildThinkingAmericaPie

I come from nothing.

Stacey Dash

NothingCome

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Lord Byron

NothingAlwaysFortuneThings

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

Dr. Dre

KnowSoundStickGoing

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Denis Kearney

MenMountainDesertFindPlacePoor

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Debbie Harry

MusicMeKnowStillEffectSeduced

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Bruno Tonioli

VisionPeopleSwimmingThinkPlan

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Anne Sweeney

WorkGreatDayMindIdeasTeam

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

Antonis Samaras

YearStopKidUpBigCatch

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

Shia LaBeouf

MoneyTreatPlanYouActingRisk

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

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