Gail Honeyman Quotes

Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

Gail Honeyman

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LonelinessMeKnowExperiencesHer

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

Jim Ratcliffe

WorldSalaryPlacesFinalFew

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

Andre Balazs

GoodBusinessFoodGood FoodFashion

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Ann Voskamp

SoulJoyYouDownThugMore

I just knew that I wanted world domination. I knew that with anything I do, I want to be the greatest. That entails being great everywhere. Not just in America - everywhere.

Stefflon Don

GreatWorldAmericaWantAnything

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

Rodney King

LifeLiveKingPeopleMeLook

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Mike Nichols

ChanceTake A ChanceSafeTakeOnly

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

SlaveryHoldTakeManyFewTakes

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

Autre Ne Veut

ParadigmAgainstSureMakeWanted

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

Anne Enright

WomenMeWritingSmallSayWay

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Alice Walker

WomenCultureWordsMeBlackNow

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

Peter Berg

TruthTruth IsLovedVotingAmerica

I like colours. I like to be bright and bold.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

BoldBrightLikeColours

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