Emma Tennant Quotes

Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.

Emma Tennant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 20, 1937 - January 21, 2017

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I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

Andrew Solomon

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I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

Andrew Cuomo

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I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Sparky Anderson

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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

Trent Reznor

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There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

Robert Downey, Jr.

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As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

Jon Ossoff

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You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

Brian McDermott

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I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.

Alison Brie

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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

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When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

James Turrell

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I box every day when I'm in New York.

Gigi Hadid

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