Phoebe Tonkin Quotes
I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
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I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.
