Emily Browning Quotes
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. 'I'm worth it, I'm credible - believe me, give me a shot!' That's the way I feel on a consistent basis.
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To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
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An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
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With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
