Phillip Noyce Quotes
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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One person's view is not to be sniffed at. Everybody is entitled to have their view and people are entitled to have a different view from the view the [American] Government has arrived at and they're entitled to express their view.
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...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.
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I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
