Emma Quotes - Page 2

• A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

  Russell Baker

  Political, President, Stories

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• If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Character, Giving

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• The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

  Julian Fellowes

  Party, Men, Numbers

  "My family values". Interview with Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Community, Acting, Serious

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• My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, Men, Ice

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• Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

  Bill Nighy

  Adorable, Lovely, Extremes

  "Bill Nighy Praises 'Harry Potter' Stars". Premiere Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. June 29, 2010.

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• On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

  Alan Rickman

  New York, Years, Dancing

  "Alan Rickman Says Goodbye to 'Harry Potter' in a published letter to J.K.Rowling" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2011.

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• I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

  Emma Roberts

  Roles, Woody, Said

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• The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Funny, Girl, Nice

  "Amanda Seyfried's March 2012 Cover-Shoot Gallery". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2012.

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• You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Views, Scrooge, Cards

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• There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

  Jane Austen

  Men, Resolution, Duty

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.91, Wild Jot Press

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• And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Book, Hard Times

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sleep, Needs, Lice

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• You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Couple, Lying

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.179, Penguin

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• For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Ideas, Violet, Peculiar

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• He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

  David Nicholls

  Laughter, Laughing, Feelings

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• …and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Soul, Portions

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• Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Book, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Animal, Play

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• Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

  David Nicholls

  Missing, My Best Friend, Courses

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• She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

  David Nicholls

  Flirting, Light, Sun

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• You're Bes, I guess?" I said. "Yes," he said. "Your car's a mess," Liz muttered. "If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up.

  Rick Riordan

  Car, Liz, Said

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Wine, Mouths, Toes

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beach, Stars, Fall

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• Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body ... I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't make six new characters instead of one.

  Lore Segal

  Writing, Character, Hard Times

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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