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Emma Donoghue Quotes

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: irish
Birth: October 24, 1969

Topics

Strong Confident She Always Her

We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!

Jennifer Garner

People Criticism Hard Out Much Too

I've worked on sets that were unhappy.

Jennifer Konner

Unhappy Were Sets Worked

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art Man Fate Against Revolt

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

Michael Ian Black

Time Criticism Sometimes Something

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

John Sherman Cooper

Me Conversation Never FBI Did Ever

We're not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

Go Out Going Everybody Challenged

It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.

Past Fight Career Dangerous Three

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

Music Great People Wake Up America

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Alone Being Alone Diet Trying Bed

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America today. We lock them up as if locking them up is gonna solve the problem. And locking them up does not solve the problem. Did locking me up make me better? No, it did not. It made my struggle harder.

Today Struggle People Me Better

I feel like human beings cover up their scent with all these different things and products. I feel like we've given up our ability to engage with people because we don't know how people smell anymore.

People Feel Know Smell Human Scent

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

Marianne Williamson

Me Thoughts Alive Say Things Come

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