Abbie Cornish Quotes
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We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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I'm very passionate.
