W. P. Kinsella Quotes
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
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If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.
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It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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We have little evidence of existence of other beings in the universe. Yet it is my faith that other children of our Father live on other planets. And these beings are much taller than us, by 3 or 4 feet at least. And the much stronger force of gravity on these planets make them impossibly strong. And when the Savior visited them long ago, he told them how impressed he was with their physical prowess. This is my testimony.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
