"I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way."

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Emma Donoghue

#Writing Quotes #Order Quotes #House Quotes

“When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.”

Source : "Why are the catwalks so white?". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”
“When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
“A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same.”
“Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it's like this is where I need to be.”
“Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.”
“Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.”

Source : Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.46, Icon Books Ltd
“You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.”

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