Kerry Stokes Quotes
I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime, and by mid-afternoon, you're wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause, then it's wonderful.
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You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.
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My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
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I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.
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Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.
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I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.
