"We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear."

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Emma Donoghue

#Would Be Quotes #Panic Quotes #Evening Quotes

“From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh”
“Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”

Source : Daniel Defoe (1948). “Robinson Crusoe, and A journal of the plague year”
“This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.”
“There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.”
“Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.”
“Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.”
“And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.”
“Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.”

Source : Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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