Deborah Quotes

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

Remember the past - and await the future.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Sorry, we've got ghosts.

Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

I know,I can smell it, too.

His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.

Her bark is worse than her bite.

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

This is the reality, that these people share the same problems as the rest of us and that those problems can be overcome.

Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails.

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.

It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].

We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.

To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.