Emma Donoghue Quotes

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

Emma Donoghue

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The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

John Oates

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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

Michael Chabon

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In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.

John Tyler Bonner

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There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

Simon Sinek

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Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Rupert Murdoch

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I would love to earn another fight with Ronda Rousey again. She's the best in the world, and as a competitor you want to go up against the best. She's demolished everyone and I think I'm the only one that has taken her into the third round. I'm going to keep fighting and try to earn another fight with her. I'd love to become the UFC World Champion.

Miesha Tate

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My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.

Jon Katz

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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Chuck Norris

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My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

Chuck Palahniuk

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That's how the Pell Grant system works, in that you get a flat dollar amount, and you can use it for tuition or room and board.

Brian Schatz

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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Richard Foreman

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