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Danielle Dutton

"Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character for a book, but my idea was for a totally different book. It had all these characters in it; Samuel Pepys was one of the main characters. He famously wrote these extensive diaries through the period that are really funny and sort of saucy, actually."

Source : "An interview with danielle dutton". Interview with Michelle Lyn King, www.3ammagazine.com. March 15, 2016.

Danielle Dutton

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“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

Source : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
“Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.”
“Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.”
“Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)”
“To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.”
“They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.”
“Another faculty has released this knowledge: our spirit. It is Godâ€™s Word in our spirit. It creates a reality that registers in our spirit. We live by this spiritual knowledge and walk in its light.”
“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

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