Emma Healey Quotes

Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to write 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.

Emma Healey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 27, 1985

Topics

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It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Joey Lauren Adams

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When comics are in the room, people have a tendency to try to make them laugh. That doesn't really make you funnier. It makes you a comic's comic, but you aren't going to get a fan base doing that.

Jermaine Fowler

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I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

John Cusack

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If I have my breakfast after my workout, I'll do a shaker with whey protein, chia, greens powder, and maca. When I get out, I'll put ice in the shaker with coconut water, shake it, and have it for breakfast.

Anna Kaiser

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I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

Jeb Bush

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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.

Amy Purdy

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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

Roy Wood

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I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.

Judith Jamison

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The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

Dierks Bentley

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Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Bow Wow

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Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

Bryan Fogel

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I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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