"I don't see the point of pretending we're clones."

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Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

Eden Robinson

#Pretending Quotes

“I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.”
“Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.”
“Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.”

Source : Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.56, Random House
“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”

Source : Darrell Huff (1993). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
“I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.”

Source : "Famke Janssen Talks TAKEN 2, HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, HEMLOCK GROVE, Her Directorial Debut BRINGING UP BOBBY and Follow-Up RIO ROJO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2012.
“But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.”
“We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

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