Emma Healey Quotes

I had so many people in my family with dementia that it felt like it belonged to me in a way. I feel like the same with teenage depression because I went through it. I feel like I'm allowed to write about it; it's mine.

Emma Healey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

Joe Cocker

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I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

Jessye Norman

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That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.

Jeremih

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When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Tony Bennett

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If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

Rory Kinnear

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It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Michael Korda

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I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim

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Early, I wanted to fight against things: 'Oh, I feel like a background dancer here in the back of the Wyatts.' Man, looking back now, I wish we could still be doing that. I'm on TV every week, plenty of TV. You've got to look at some of the positives of the situation.

Luke Harper

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I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

Lleyton Hewitt

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I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.

Jonathan Levine

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An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

Deborah Tannen

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